Song Length |
4:06 |
Genre |
Rock - Roots/Rock n' Roll |
Lyrics
WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN
By Owen Frederic
Man breaks down at the corner booth, said he came in to find the truth,
In the bottle of whiskey that I was pouring.
He said I?ve been rich and I?ve been poor, but there?s got to be something more,
To why that we are all living.
I set them up and he knocked them down, soon enough he began to smile,
And talk of the days that he?d been thinking.
He said it wasn?t that long ago, lines in my face didn?t show,
All the tears that I?ve been crying.
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He said, When I was a young man, I held my dreams high,
When I was a young man, I pushed my fear aside,
When I was a young man, no one ever really cried,
Because, When I was a young man, no one ever died.
Blonde hair boy and a blonde hair wife, all the finer things in life,
More than anyone could ever hope for.
But he work his whole damn life, so he could pay the price, To buy yet another front door.
They died late one night, he was on a midnight flight,
Trying to make it home for the weekend.
Nobody saw that black train, in the night and in the rain,
Coming so fast it would be the end.
Man stayed till the bar closed, I said old friend you?ve got to go,
I?m heading home to see my baby.
He said hold her tight and hold her strong, it sure as hell don?t last long,
When all you got left is maybe.
We shuffle off into the night, he went his way and I went mine,
But I took him home in my memory.
I listen to him when I go wrong, when another summer is gone,
And I come home alone feeling empty.
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