They Call Me Cousin Cracker

https://suno.com/song/be643f63-8d1e-43e7-8cb4-6b80c67997a8

Verse 1

I grew up where the dust don’t settle on your name

Just sticks to your boots and follows you in shame

Got a family tree with a couple broken limbs

And a past that talks when the night gets thin

Sheriff knew my daddy, said “you’re cut the same”

I said “maybe worse,” he just laughed and wrote my name

Been runnin’ from a story I didn’t write

But it reads like truth in a barroom light

Chorus

They call me Cousin Cracker, like I’m born to lose

Like I’m some backroad punchline they can all abuse

But I wear it like a badge, let it cut me deep

Yeah I made friends with the ghosts I keep

You can laugh, you can talk, you can drag my name

But I ain’t never been afraid of a little shame

If you’re lookin’ for a saint, better look elsewhere

They call me Cousin Cracker… I don’t care

Verse 2

Got a cousin doin’ time and an uncle in debt

And a mama still prayin’ I ain’t dead yet

Preacher said “son you can still be saved”

I said “not tonight, got a hole to pave”

I been one step ahead or two steps gone

Singin’ truth in a world that plays along

Yeah I learned real quick what the label’s worth

It’s just cheap ink tryin’ to measure a man’s dirt

Chorus

They call me Cousin Cracker, like I’m born to lose

Like I’m some backroad punchline they can all abuse

But I wear it like a badge, let it cut me deep

Yeah I made friends with the ghosts I keep

You can laugh, you can talk, you can drag my name

But I ain’t never been afraid of a little shame

If you’re lookin’ for a saint, better look elsewhere

They call me Cousin Cracker… I don’t care

Bridge

Names don’t hang you… people do

But I’ve been worse than what they knew

Final Chorus (lift)

Yeah they call me Cousin Cracker, now I say it proud

Turned a whisper in the dark to a shout out loud

Ain’t no clean hands in this town tonight

Just different shades of wrong and right

If you’re countin’ sins, better count me twice

I’ve been rollin’ hard on borrowed dice

You can judge me now, but I’ll still be there—

They call me Cousin Cracker… I don’t care

I think I can sing this