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00:09I've been the kid they counted out, been the mouth that got too loud
00:14I've walked away when I should've stayed, stood my ground when I should've changed
00:19I've loved some people, lost some too, broke some hearts and had mine bruised
00:24Got a thousand things I'd do again, and a thousand I would change
00:30But don't read my story like it's finished, just because my hair turned gray
00:39I ain't done becoming, I ain't finished yet
00:44There's still some highway in these bones, still some fire in my chest
00:50I got songs I haven't written, I got hell I haven't raised
00:55I got people left to love, and a few old wrongs to face
01:00So don't carve my name in yesterday, don't tell me who I've been
01:04I ain't done becoming, who I'm gonna be in the end
01:13I watched little hands become grown hands
01:16Watched years disappear like shifting sand
01:19Then another little hand grabbed mine and somehow turned the clock around
01:24She don't care about my failures, she don't know the things I've done
01:29She just looks at me and smiles and says, Grandpa, let's have fun
01:34And suddenly I'm twenty, with sixty years of scars
01:38Teaching her about the moon while she's teaching me about stars
01:44I ain't done becoming, I ain't finished yet
01:48There's still some highway in these bones, still some fire in my chest
01:54I got songs I haven't written, I got hell I haven't raised
01:59I got people left to love, and a few old wrongs to face
02:04So don't carve my name in yesterday, don't tell me who I've been
02:09I ain't done becoming, who I'm gonna be in the end
02:16There's an old bike in the garage, chrome reflecting every scar
02:21There's a guitar leaning by the wall that's carried me this far
02:25I've written words about the broken, I've sung about the dead
02:30Sometimes the things I couldn't tell, somebody came out in a song instead
02:35Maybe that's why I keep writing, maybe that's why I still write
02:40One keeps asking where I'm going, one keeps asking what's inside
02:46Someday they'll close the book on me, and somebody else can choose
02:51Which stories they remember, and which ones they refuse
02:56But brother, that ain't happening while I'm standing here tonight
03:00Turn that damn amplifier up, I'm still alive
03:09I ain't done becoming, I ain't finished yet
03:14There's still thunder in this old heart, still some crazy in my head
03:20I got roads I haven't written, I got songs nobody's heard
03:25I got our love you's left to give, and a few last fucking words
03:29Let them talk about my yesterday, let them tell you where I've been
03:34I ain't done becoming, who I'm gonna be in the end
03:41I've been wrong, I've been right, I've been lost, I've survived
03:46I've been young, I'm getting old, but I ain't finished with this life
03:52No, I ain't done becoming, there's another song to write
03:58Another road, another sunrise, another chance to get it right
04:03And when the day finally comes that I take my final ride
04:09Don't remember me for getting old
04:12Remember I never stopped being alive
04:20I ain't done becoming, there's another song to write
04:21I'm gonna be wrong, there's another song to write
04:22I'm gonna be wrong, I ain't done becoming, there's another song to write