[Intro] [Verse 1] I crossed paths with a better man Was a poorer man, and he looked a lot like me I was two weeks into an asphalt binge And twenty years when I lost my identity I saw him but he couldn't see me 'Cause that's how it goes when you try to change a memory And I couldn't tell if it hurt more then Or it hurts more now that the sees's grown a crooked tree [Chorus] And I saw my bad angels And the boy they met in 1993 But it ain't all on the angels 'Cause the boy was bound to meet a man like me To meet a man like me To meet a man like me [Verse 2] I saw a ghost on the road today And he didn't know me but I knew him all too well He stared down a crooked path Kind of wide-eyed for fame and fortune and for wealth He hadn't learned that the path to wealth Was the road you ride with your friends and your family And he'd have to feel the fires of hell To change his ways, yeah he'd have to see to believe [Chorus] And I saw my bad angels And the boy they met in 1993 But it ain't all on the angels 'Cause the boy was bound to meet a man like me To meet a man like me To meet a man like me [Outro] I crossed paths with a better man Was a poor man and he looked a lot like me
