**[Verse 1]** **[Verse 1]** Back when you still lived at your parents' house, Sneaking around, trying not to get found out, We'd pull up, you'd be waiting on the corner, Jump in the car like there was no tomorrow. No real money, no real plans, Just Toni and me and you crazy young men, Music turned up, windows rolled down, We thought those nights would always be around. **[Verse 2]** We partied together, we stayed out late, Didn't give a damn about time or fate, We went to cemeteries in the middle of the night, Scaring each other underneath the moonlight. Laughing and drinking, talking our shit, Doing crazy things we'll never forget, Some memories funny, some better left alone, But somehow every one of them became part of home. **[Pre-Chorus]** We didn't know it then, Couldn't possibly see, Those reckless nights were becoming Our history. **[Chorus]** We picked you up on corners, We picked you up when you fell, We partied like crazy, We raised some hell. We were bruised, we were drunk, We were learning life too, Never realizing Toni and I Were helping raise you. You were becoming men, We were growing older too, And somewhere along the way **we all grew up together.** **[Verse 3]** Deon, you called when you'd been in a fight, Black and blue in the middle of the night, You knew who to call, you knew we'd come, Didn't matter what you'd said or what you'd done. We'd get you home, make sure you were alright, Probably bitch at you half of the night, Then laugh about something before morning came, Because mad or not, we loved you all the same. **[Verse 4]** One of you drunk, one of you hurt, One with a broken heart under his shirt, One needed a ride, one needed a place, Sometimes you just needed a familiar face. And Toni and I had our own damn scars, Our own bad choices, our own broken hearts, We weren't grown women who had life figured out— Hell, half the time we didn't know what life was about. **[Chorus]** We picked you up on corners, We picked you up when you fell, We went to cemeteries, We raised some hell. We laughed until morning, Sometimes cried until two, Never realizing Toni and I Were helping raise you. You were becoming men, We were becoming women too, We weren't watching you grow up— **we were growing up with you.** **[Bridge]** Your parents' houses... Those neighborhood corners... Those long car rides... Those cemetery nights... The fights... The parties... The tears... The laughter... God, we thought it was just life. We didn't know someday we'd give anything to have one ordinary night of it back. Because nobody told us when the good old days were happening. **[Verse 5]** Then somehow the years started moving too fast, And the present became pictures from the past, Those boys on the corner weren't boys anymore, And nobody was sneaking out that parents' door. Different lives, different roads, different homes, And sometimes life took us places alone, But there's something that time can never undo— A piece of Toni and me will always live in you. **[Final Chorus]** We picked you up on corners, We picked you up when you fell, We danced, we drank, We raised some hell. We walked through cemeteries like we owned the damn night, We loved one another even when nothing was right. We were young ourselves, We were figuring it out too, But when you were hurt, you knew who to run to. And looking back now, it's almost hard to believe— All those ordinary nights became our favorite memories. We thought we were partying. We thought we were just living. We thought we'd have forever. But all that time... **Toni and I were helping raise you. You boys were helping shape us too. And without any of us realizing it— we grew older together.** **We grew up together.** And through every crazy year, every fight, every tear, every damn mistake— **we loved you boys all the same.** **[Pre-Chorus]**
