What It Takes

What It Takes - Montgomery Gentry

I learn what I know

But I was born this way

More of a number

And less of a name

I talk a little too quiet

And not enough they say

I only tell my secrets

When it's time to pray

You wouldn't see the war

just lookin' from the outside

I've got red dirt blood here

runnin' on the inside

Sink or swim, live or die

A saving grace and a blue sky

All alone, and unafraid

It's never just another day

And you don't back down or walk away

But I know, I do, I am

What it takes

What it takes

Wash away my footprints

With the undertow

While I'll walk the wire,

of the great unknown

I got two parts too

My storied soul

One stands with my brothers,

one waits for me back at home

Sink or swim, live or die

A saving grace and a blue sky

All alone, and unafraid

It's never just another day

And you don't back down or walk away

But I know, I do, I am

What it takes

You wouldn't see the war

just lookin' from the outside

I've got red dirt blood here

runnin' on the inside

Sink or swim, live or die

A saving grace and a blue sky

All alone, and unafraid

It's never just another day

And you don't back down or walk away

But I know, I do, I am

What it takes

Oh what it takes

What it takes