Proud to Be Wild

Verse 1

Mama said slow down, this town's a tightrope walk

Bare feet on country gravel, too tough to knock

Sunday sermons, sticky summers dragged on forever

One red wagon wheel, that's how it rolls, that's clever

Dirty hands, truth-telling tongue

Stubborn streak, heart still young

Too stubborn for the preacher, too clever for fate

Only trouble waits at those iron gates

Chorus

I’m proud to be

Too bad for the AI matrix

Can’t put chains on me, can’t trace this

Raised in the wild, I make my own rules

Proud to be too bad, too good for fools

Post-Chorus

Too bad, too bold, too right, too wrong

Too bad, too bold, singin' that same old song

Verse 2

Backroad boys, bailed hay, broke every curfew

County line moon, all the lawmen ever knew

No wires wound through my restless head

Sun up, still running, wild and unsaid

Chewin’ dust, chasing trains, chewing fate

Don’t dream in circuits, heart won’t wait

Taught myself what the textbooks never said

Bad to the bone, but never misled

Chorus

I’m proud to be

Too bad for the AI matrix

Can’t put chains on me, can’t trace this

Raised in the wild, I make my own rules

Proud to be too bad, too good for fools

Post-Chorus

Too bad, too bold, too right, too wrong

Too bad, too bold, singin' that same old song

Bridge

Never walking straight lines, never say die

Wiser than the wires, sharper than the eye

Freedom’s the anthem, foolish is king

I’ll dance in the dirt and I’ll let freedom ring

Chorus

I’m proud to be

Too bad for the AI matrix

Can’t put chains on me, can’t trace this

Raised in the wild, I make my own rules

Proud to be too bad, too good for fools

Post-Chorus

Too bad, too bold, too right, too wrong

Too bad, too bold, singin' that same old song

Outro

Too bad, too bold, forever along

Too wild for their wires, too right for their wrong

Still proud, still loud, where I belong