[00:44.600]All these kinds of places make it seem like it's been ages [00:48.810]Tomorrow some new building will scrape the sky [00:53.640]I love this country dearly [00:55.690]I can feel the ladder clearly [00:58.230]But I never thought I'd be alone to try [01:03.300]Once I was outside Penn Station selling red and white carnations [01:08.320]We were still alone my wife and I [01:12.760]Before we married saved my money [01:15.220]Brought my dear wife over [01:17.170]Now I work to bring my family stateside [01:21.010] [01:22.360]But off the boat they stayed awhile then scattered across the coast [01:27.060]Once a year I'll see them for a week or so at most [01:31.530]I took a walk(take a walk, take a walk,take a walk,take a walk...) [01:41.210]I took a walk(take a walk, take a walk,take a walk,take a walk...) [01:50.880] [01:51.340]Practice isn't perfect but the market cuts the loss [01:55.310]I remind myself that times could be much worse [02:00.200]My wife won't ask me questions [02:02.400]There's not so much to ask [02:04.620]And she'll never flaunt around an empty purse [02:09.870]Once my mother-in-law came just to stay a couple nights [02:14.320]Then decided she would stay the rest of her life [02:19.280]I watch my little children play some board game in the kitchen [02:23.940]And I sit and pray they never feel my strife [02:27.370] [02:28.840]But then my partner called to say the pension funds were gone [02:33.350]He made some bad investments now the accounts are overdrawn [02:37.960]I took a walk(take a walk, take a walk,take a walk,take a walk...) [02:47.710]I took a walk(take a walk, take a walk,take a walk,take a walk...) [02:56.940] [02:57.640]Honey, it's your son I think I borrowed just too much [03:01.770]we had taxes, we had bills, we had a lifestyle to front [03:06.480]and tonight I swear I'll come home and we'll make love like we're young [03:11.440]and tomorrow you'll cook dinner for the neighbors and their kids [03:15.990]we can rip apart those socialists and all their damn taxes [03:20.880]but see I am no criminal, I'm down on both bad knees [03:25.700]I'm just too much a coward, to admit when I'm in need [03:30.470]I took a walk(take a walk, take a walk,take a walk,take a walk...) [03:39.970]I took a walk(take a walk, take a walk,take a walk,take a walk...) [03:49.470]I took a walk(take a walk, take a walk,take a walk,take a walk...) [03:59.110]I took a walk(take a walk, take a walk,take a walk,take a walk...)