[Verse 1]
When I had my tracheotomy
I was blue and had stopped breathing
There was something wrong with me
Doctors cut through the cartilage and skin
At the bottom of my throat
And then they snaked that trach tube in
[Chorus 1]
And I was one and a half
I was my parents only kid
And they had lost two before that
And growing up, I always knew how close I d come
Well, that must have been scary, Mom
[Verse 2]
Gary Coleman, he was