From the recording FRAZZLED FRIED AND LOST
Lyrics
"13"
Lyrics by Kristopher Daniel Pinnell
[Verse 1]
Wasn't Oklahoma
where I was raised
Northern Alberta
Where winds
cut like a blades
Stormy summers
Winters frozen skies
Came home one day
the barn was gone
With no goodbyes
[chorus
They took me
from the county school
Dropped me in the city
played me like a fool
Cowboy boots in rubber shells
Galoshes in the snow
like some private hell
I was only thirteen
just a kid with a name
Trying to stand tall
in someone else's shame
Verse ii
Fingers crushed, no pills, just pain
that night i broke
With nothing to gain
I fled in Februarys Frigid night
I was just thirteen
But I remember everything
Hopeless and lost
Nothing more than
a thing to be tossed
chorus
They took me
from the county school
Dropped me in the city
played me like a fool
Cowboy boots in rubber shells
Galoshes in the snow
like some private hell
I was only thirteen
just a kid with a name
Trying to stand tall
in someone else's shame
Verse 3]
Hitchhiked through
the winters cold
Alberta roads and a soul turned old
A man with kind eyes
pulled to the side
Get in son
I will give you a ride
Gave me shelter
gave me time
His wife cooked breakfast
She didn't ask why
Fed me and let
the silence lie
I just 13,
Still had miles
to go that day
But that little moment
never went away
[chorus
They took me
from the county school
Dropped me in the city
played me like a fool
Cowboy boots in rubber shells
Galoshes in the snow
like some private hell
I was only thirteen
just a kid with a name
Trying to stand tall
in someone else's shame
Verse 4
I was only thirteen
halfway to broke
No one asked why I ran
no letter, no note.
Mama drove me back
like it was wrote
Not a single soul
had called me
runaway that day
I was just 13.
I remember everything
[Bridge
stop talk-in
Stopped dream-in
started countin time
four more months
like a prison with no bars
with no crime
Packed what was mine
On that final day
Left their neglect
In the dust along the way
[Bridge]
[Final Chorus
I was only thirteen
but I walked that line
Through snow and silence
I made it mine.
Now I sing for the ones no one ever sees
The ones still out there
just tryin' to breathe.
I was just thirteen...
But I survived everything.