He's A Little Bit Like Me
	(written by Mike Bryant)
(1/20/2010)


Verse 1]
I seen him by the water
Bare feet in the mud
Notebook in his lap
Like a branch after a flood
He wrote on the margin
Then stared at the bend
Same way I used to
Back when I was ten

[Pre-Chorus]
He bit that pencil
Like he had a plan
Tipped his hat back
Just like I do, friend
And the sun hit his shoulder
In a copper-red glow
I knew that old river
Was already in his bones

[Chorus]
He's A Little Bit Like Me
(He's a little bit like me)
Same quiet fire
Same stubborn need
He's A Little Bit Like Me
(He's a little bit like me)
My boy and my shadow
Writin' down the same old trees

[Verse 2]
I stayed in the truck
With my hand on the wheel
Saw my own young trouble
In the way he could feel
He tore up a page
Then started again
Like a man learnin' mercy
From the shape of the pen
He laughed at the current
Let it take what it would
And I felt my whole heart
Go soft like it should

[Pre-Chorus]
He bit that pencil
Like he had a plan
Tipped his hat back
Just like I do, man
And the river kept turnin'
Like it knew his name
I was lookin' at my own life
Walkin' back my way

[Chorus]
He's A Little Bit Like Me
(He's a little bit like me)
Same quiet fire
Same stubborn need
He's A Little Bit Like Me
(He's a little bit like me)
My boy and my shadow
Writin' down the same old trees

[Bridge]
I raised him on answers
He found him some songs
He learned to keep goin'
When the words came wrong
And if he leaves me one day
With that same old tune
Lord, I hope he keeps findin'
What he found under that moon

[Chorus]
He's A Little Bit Like Me
(He's a little bit like me)
Same quiet fire
Same stubborn need
He's A Little Bit Like Me
(He's a little bit like me)
My boy and my shadow
Writin' down the same old trees

[Outro]
By the river, he was whole
And I was, too
He wrote my life back
In the boy I knew