
Date of issue: 17.08.2017
Record label: Brooklyn Basement
Song language: English
Work |
Carhart jacket on 5: 30 AM |
Feeling like the ace of spades |
Fifteen years old, work till the sun comes |
Then I’m off to school again |
Working my back as a young man |
Taught me I’d rather work my mind |
So we’d cop a little smoke |
And crack a couple jokes |
Just trying to learn to survive |
I wanted to work to live |
No not just live to work |
I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my T-shirt |
Was a young man singin' an old man’s song |
Payin' with my last dimes |
But working to live beats living to work |
Anytime |
I had a teacher |
She told my mother that she better find me a trade |
Because boys like me well we all grow up |
To be long term guests of the state |
Now I worked hard because I had to |
I never found much luck |
Till' I built my world |
Round' a Georgia girl |
Who told me that I was enough |
I wanted to work to live |
No not just live to work |
I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my t-shirt |
Was a young man singing an old man’s song |
Paying with my last dimes |
But working to live beats living to work |
Anytime |
Sometimes at night I wake with a shiver |
Sweat soaking clean through my sheets |
Then I remember I am who I am |
Not who they said I would be |
And I wasn’t born with nothin' |
Cept' a voice and common sense |
Maybe that’s why I took off runnin' |
The first chance that I had |
I wanted to work to live |
No not just live to work |
I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my T-shirt |
Was a young man singing an old man’s song |
Paying with my last dimes |
But working to live beats living to work |
Anytime |
Oh working to live beats living to work |
Anytime |
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