[Verse] this started before your grandmother met your grandfather god was getting you ready for what's about to happen in your life ,you understand what i'm saying it didn't just start with you sixteen years old they buried my father [Verse2] i felt like a failure ,he been sick since i was ten my mother and i had driven back forth to the hospital i could i run a kidney machine and couldn't ride a bicycle while other little kids was playing in the yard i was in the house mopping up blood running a kidney machine, taking care of my father [Chorus] that made me get in the word of god, if i were not broken like that i wouldn't have had the inordate hunger that i had. that's why they called me the bible boy. i didn't have nothing else to read. [Verse3] all i've ever known all my life was taking care of other people, and when he died i felt like a failure because he died, he slipped out of my fingers and he was gone and wor than just feeling like a failure [Verse4] i felt confused because he died without telling me who i am, and what he thought of me, and what i could do,and what i could be,and how i could fly,and did you even like me, [Bridge] and i didn't even understand anything, and i was cry, and they were lowiniest body in the grave, and i didn't understand it when i was sixteen, i didn't understand it when i was seventeen, i didn't understand it when i was eighteen, i didn't understand it when i was nineteen, i didn't understand it when i was twenty. all of a sudden as i got older i began to realize that it was the loss of my father that made me seek the holy ghost, [Chorus] that made me get in the word of god, if i were not broken like that i wouldn't have had the inordate hunger that i had. that's why they called me the bible boy. i didn't have nothing else to read. [Verse5] i used to put my bible in my science book in high school,and sneak,and read the scriptures, 'cause i was trying to find my daddy. and while i was looking for er sel, i found elohim [Chorus] that made me get in the word of god, if i were not broken like that i wouldn't have had the inordate hunger that i had. that's why they called me the bible boy. i didn't have nothing else to read.
