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I woke up this morning, August 3rd |
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It's been a pretty slow and uneventful summer |
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Went to visit a friend in Santa Fe |
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Went to New Orleans and went to see my family |
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Woke up this morning and it occurred |
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I needed one more track to finish up my record |
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I was feeling out of fuel and uninspired |
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Laid on my bed, too hung, a little down, a little tired |
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Met my girl and we walked down Union Street |
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I was scared and my head was in a bunch of places |
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Bought a 350 dollar pair of lampshades |
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And we ate at Perry's and I ordered crab cakes |
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Blue crab cakes |
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Blue crab cakes |
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Blue crab cakes |
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She said I seemed distracted and asked what was going on with me |
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I said I can't explain it and it's a middle age thing |
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She said okay and ate her eggs Benedict |
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And I looked at the walls cluttered with sports bar shit |
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Sports bar shit |
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Sports bar shit |
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Sports bar shit |
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Got on the phone and I called my mother |
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And called my father, talked a little bit with my sister |
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She's got a new boyfriend, he's a deer hunter |
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And she's getting used to venison |
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And my dad's still fighting with his girlfriend |
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About his flirting with the girls in Panera Bread |
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My mom is good but sounded out of breath |
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I worry so much about her, I worry to death |
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I worry to death |
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I worry about her to death |
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I worry to death |
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The other night I went and saw The Postal Service |
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Ben's my friend but getting there was the worst |
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Trying to park and getting up the hill |
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And find a spot amongst the drunk kids staring at their cells |
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Standing at the back with the crowd of eight thousand |
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I thought of Ben when I met him in 2000 |
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At a festival in Spain |
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He was on the small stage then and I didn't know his name |
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Now he's singing at the Greek and he's busting moves |
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And my legs were hurting and my feet were too |
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I called him after, said I'll skip the backstage high five |
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But thanks for the nice music and all the exercise |
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And we laughed and it was alright |
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And we laughed and it was alright |
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And it was alright |
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There's a fine line between a middle-aged guy with a backstage pass |
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And a guy with a gut hanging around like a jackass |
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Everybody there was twenty years younger than me |
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At least that this is not my fondest memory |
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I carried my legs back down and then I gave |
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My backstage passes to two cute asian girls |
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I drove to my place near Tahoe |
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Got in my hot tub and thought well that's how it goes |
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And it was quiet and I was listening to the crickets |
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And Ben's still out there, selling lots of tickets |
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And though while we pretend that there's a temperature competitiveness |
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But Ben's my friend and I know he gets it |
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Then in a couple of days my meltdown passed |
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Back to the studio doing twelve hours shifts |
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Singing a song about one thing or another |
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Another day behind the microphone this summer |
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This tenderloin summer |
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This tenderloin summer |
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This tenderloin summer |
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