This was mentioned by Stewie back when this thread was new:


CHILDREN OF CHILDREN
Written by Jason Isbell
As recorded by Jason Isbell on “Something More Than Free” (2015)

1. Pictures of the farm before us:
Old men in a gospel chorus,
Sepia and saddle horses easy on the reins,
Eighty-one, a motor inn,
Your mama's seventeen again.
She's squintin’ at the dusty wind, the anger of the plains.

2. You and I were almost nothin’.
Pray to God that God was bluffin’.
Seventeen ain't old enough to reason with the pain.
And how could we expect the two
To stay in love when neither knew
The meaning of the difference between sacred and profane?

CHORUS: I was ridin’ on my mother's hip; she was shorter than the corn,
All the years I took from her just by bein’ born.

3. I didn't mean to break the cycle.
At seventeen I went by Michael.
No one ever called by my own name anyway.
Five full generations,
Living all these expectations,
Giving way to one, late to have a baby on the way.

CHORUS: You were ridin’ on your mother's hip; she was shorter than the corn,
All the years you took from her just by bein’ born.