Too Bad Too Wild Too Mean

Verse 1

Backyard breeze and a busted chair

Too proud to fold

Too bad, too wild, too thorny to be tamed

Gravel crunch under rusty boots

I spit in the wind, I laugh at the night, I’m old news

Always the first to shout

Never the last to fight

Too bold

I’m a scar in the soft of their world

Ain’t that right

Chorus

Too bad, too wild and too mean for their matrix

Walking a crooked line I drew

Too big for the box they made, too loud when truth shakes

I’m built for the road, I’m through

Too bad, too wild, you’d never make it through

Post-Chorus

I’m proud to be

Proud to be too bad

Proud to be too wild, too mean

Proud

Verse 2

They ask me why I burn bridges

Don’t they ever learn

Smoke signal stories of stubborn men

Who never run

Always the one raising Cain

Three steps ahead of your game

I spit, I grin, I tip my hat

It’s a sin, it’s a shame, it’s the way that I am

Chorus

Too bad, too wild and too mean for their matrix

Walking a crooked line I drew

Too big for the box they made, too loud when truth shakes

I’m built for the road, I’m through

Too bad, too wild, you’d never make it through

Post-Chorus

I’m proud to be

Proud to be too bad

Proud to be too wild, too mean

Bridge

Maybe someday they’ll soften my name

Maybe someday thunder turns tame

But maybe I’ll just tiptoe straight out of sight

Leave nothing but legend and a dust cloud at night

Chorus

Too bad, too wild and too mean for their matrix

Walking a crooked line I drew

Too big for the box they made, too loud when truth shakes

I’m built for the road, I’m through

Post-Chorus

I’m proud to be

Yeah proud to be too bad

Proud to be too wild, too mean

Too proud

Outro

Born too wild

Born too bad

Too proud, too wild to lean

I’m proud to be

Too bad, too wild, too mean