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Tim McGraw – Better Than I Used To Be lyrics
I know how to hold a grudge
I can send a bridge up in smoke
And I can't count the people I've let down, the hearts I've broke
You ain't gotta dig too deep
If you wanna find some dirt on me
I'm learning who you've been
Ain't who you've got to be
It's gonna be an uphill climb
Aww honey I won't lie

I ain't no angel
I still got a still few more dances with the devil
I'm cleanin up my act, little by little
I'm getting there
I can finally stand the man in the mirror I see
I ain't as good as I'm gonna get
But I'm better than I used to be

I've pinned a lot of demons to the ground
I've got a few old habits left
There's one or two I might need you to help me get
Standin in the rain so long has left me with a little rust
But put some faith in me
And someday you'll see
There's a diamond under all this dust

I ain't no angel
I still got a still few more dances with the devil
I'm cleanin up my act, little by little
I'm getting there
I can finally stand the man in the mirror I see
I ain't as good as I'm gonna get
But I'm better than I used to be

I ain't no angel
I still got a still few more dances with the devil
But I'm cleanin up my act, little by little
I'm getting there
I can finally stand the man in the mirror I see
I ain't as good as I'm gonna get
But I'm better than I used to be
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Songwriters: Ashley Gorley, Bryan Simpson
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    This song touches my heart so much. Its like the theme song to my life :) I have done so much danage to my family and loved ones, I'm in recovery from drugs(16 months) I'm lucky to still have them in my life! 2nd chances are a great thing. To me this song is about someone that has a bad past and is trying to do better. Asking for a 2nd chance! Love this song!
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    This is about a man who has been hurt in the past and turned out wild, he found a new love his angel and is trying to clean up his act, he is getting better but not as good as he can be and will be, he is asking her to hang in there with him because he will need her help and someday she will see he is a diamond!
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    Well I was with a guy 4 years and me and him spit up because he wanted the kind of girl who wanted to stay in trouble then a couple of years ago he asked me back out because she got locked up and he sung this song to me on a back of a 4 wheel drive pick up truck after I got off of work and took me to the river and we ate on a boat and he pulled a diamond ring out and asked me to marry him so now this song has came along way and still makes me smile when I listen to it so this song was our first dance to our wedding.
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    I been in this persons spot before, in fact I think we all have wit addictions or words said out of anger.
    All you can do is go step by step and apologize or fix those bridges you put up in smoke, it is a slow and painful battle. The one lyric that says I am getting there but I can finally stand the man in the mirror.
    Tells you he saw the errors in his ways and that he is doing all he can while he can to fix those mistakes out of his past.
    Do it now while you can, I am doing it and so many are gone and nobody can fix those bridges fully, do it now while you have that chance.
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    You wont it here it is. Well 18 months old I drowned in myaka city dead 4 45 minites. They told my mom my brain was dead, no sings of life. They for got to tell god tho, so them holy rollers I come from got ah hold of god! Mom call oral roberts, he said ruby I'm going up to my prayer tower right now! Don't worry hes gona be ok. As them holy rollers (my grandma 4 one loveya.
    Grandma are. I. P. 1-29 09. Formed ah circle around my bed, and god begain to move. Mom said I felt a toug at my leg, you looked up and said mama I wont ah go home! My first sentence she said. Need more? At 21 ya, I had enough. My life up to that was the hardest iv ever heard. Shot my cuz when I was 5. Ya I know I died several times in my life. Being caught up in a cocain operation at 8, ya 8. You know what happend there. Hell really came to life, not till I was 21 and wontetd to end it, did I relize them demaens were holden me in hell. At 33 god showed me ther and I still got the scares to prove it, and as he pulled me out I could see the demons! Well my moms gone, at 42 I was at hells gates again. The my mom did as she said what ever I have to do it will happen. It did at42 I got my son finally. And two older bro, ya, my story is best told over ah beer out in gods country, I'm easy to find, il buy the beer. Il tell ya where the kiling and most unjustice ever. And how the judge was lock up 4 runen naked dowm the city st at 2 am scremed demons are after me. Or how I found my mom at 8 9, raped and beat down so bad she was in ah coma 30 day or the 45 day one. Ya I'm better than I used to be. Now I fight 4 my 3 boys. And the women who love me enough to help me from juppen in to the fire! Call me bro, the song fits me. No I live it and I'm here to tell it. Thanks! Bucky fewell p, c fla. 941 979 8178. If you don't belive ill change ur mind.! Happy birthday mom, 5-28-41 ya ur song gives me the stringth I need the tears come from that river of life god put in my soul. Praise god 4 his love! Ps yall come hang 4 my wedden june 23, ah stranger ant nothen but ah friend you ant meet yet, gods love mercy and strength be with you all. You need an ere my #s on here.
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    To me this is me to a T. I've done let all my family down, my children down. Now I'm a grandma and I've been changing little by little, ya I have few old habits left, but I'm working on that as we speak. I know the things I've done in the past that were wrong and knew were wrong but did it anyways. Don't have to be thrown in my face I know I hurt them I know that I let them down. And all I'm asking is for all those people that know who I'm talking about just have faith in me ill show all I can be. This is all knew to me also so ur not the only ones scared I'm scared too.
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