I wish I was strong enough to lift not one, but both of us Someday I will be strong enough to lift not one, but both of us Never thought about losing it When your money's all gone and you lose your whip You might lose your grip When the landlord tell you that you're due for rent And the grass so green on the other side Making me wanna run straight through the fence Opened up the fridge about 20 times But you still can't find no food in it That's foolishness And sometimes I wonder Why we care so much about the way we look And the way we talk And the way we act And the clothes we bought How much that cost? Does it even really matter? Cause if life is an uphill battle We all trying to climb up the same old ladder In the same boat with the same old paddle Why so shallow? I'm just asking What's the pattern to the madness? Everybody in a number one drag pic Most of us ain't Hollywood actors But if it's all for one and one for all Then maybe one day we all could ball Do it one time for the underdogs Sincerely yours, from one of y'all I wish I was strong enough to lift not one, but both of us Someday I will be strong enough to lift Not one, but both of us I can feel your pain I can feel your struggle You just wanna live But everything's so low That you could drown in the puddle That's why I gotta hold us up Yeah, hold us up For all the times no one ever spoke for us So every single time that they play this song You can say that that's what Bobby Ray wrote for us When the tides get too high And the sea up underneath gets so deep And you feel like you're just another person getting lost In the crowd where your pie in the nose bleeds Uh, because we both been there, yeah, both of us But we still stand tall with our shoulders up And even though we always against the odds These are the things that have molded us And if life hadn't chosen us Sometimes I wonder where I would've wound up Cause if it was up to me I'd make a new blueprint Then build it from the ground up Hey, but if it's all for one and one for all Then maybe one day we all could ball Do it one time for the underdogs From Bobby Ray to all of y'all I wish I was strong enough To lift not one, but both of us Someday I will be strong enough To lift not one, but both of us Up and down