Remember starting from the bottom
When we didn’t have a piss pot
So I called up my grampa
And I asked him for a long shot
Like a fool

But of course he turned me down though
‘Cause he’d already thrown his dough
My way a time or two and
It mostly found a black hole
As a rule

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La la la
La la la

I thought it worth a try though
But he didn’t have the match though
And I should have listened closer
To the voice that knew the better
In my mind

The silence got so awkward
When I tried to circle back for
The reasons and the first one
To the last one just went dead air
On the line

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I’ve always looked up to him
For his honor and his discipline
And his straight forward manner
His humor and that hammer
He carries well

But in the end the plights the same though
For the pinwheel and the scarecrow
And it’s shorter every day so
It shook me in a bad way
That unrest

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Oh man I will be damned slow
If this life is not a hard row
From the rushing of your first breath
‘Til the time you see your life vest
Float no more

But there’s magic in the moment
You can find it if you want it
And it sparkles like the lights of
Hudson barges in the night time
Near the shore

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