The Lessons in the Yard
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[intro]

The boys ran to the yard
They had their bags of marbles
They knew the game was hard
But they had a trick this time

Some sharper than the others
They had their spots marked out
They stacked marbles at one end
Come and get them they would shout

Roll your marbles if you got 'em
If you hit them you can keep them
If not you lose the bet
And go home with your regrets

[chorus]
I never listened, 
I never had a pyle
I always was the loser, 
But I learned to loose and smile

[01:58][instrumental]

This was a game for suckers
And I was one of them
The marbles cost me money
All that I had to spend

I alway lost more than I won
I don't think that it was fun
We were trying to be tough
To show we were a man

My dad he called me "boy"
He rarely called me son
He'd say "boy, you're going to loose"
"It is time for you to choose"
"You cannot be the roller"
"No one is your friend"
"The only way to get ahead"
"You gotta own the game"

[chorus]
I never listened, 
I never had a pyle
I always was the loser, 
But I learned to loose and smile

[04:24][instrumental]

My dad he called me "boy"
He rarely called me son
He'd say "boy, you're going to loose"
"It is time for you to choose"
"You cannot be the roller"
"No one is your friend"
"The only way to get ahead"
"You gotta own the game"

[chorus]
I never listened, 
I never had a pyle
I always was the loser, 
But I learned to loose and smile

[instrumental]

I never listened, 
I never had a pyle
I always was the loser, 
But I learned to loose and smile

[instrumental]

[outro]


The Lessons in the Yard

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Ethereal (Goodluv)

A song about how a person makes me feel.

production by: @beneller

Lyrics:

Color cutting through coronaries
and blood erupting and warming up
Sun is gutting my shivers out your
tongue a lovely euphoria
Placing care above your eyes and lining
that your smile forms
Remain aware of nothing but that
you are mine and I am yours

And it’s lovely how you take the day away from me 

I forget what my day is like
and I can’t name my medication
I don’t know where I parked the ford
or the time zone or the elevation
or what I’m doing inside of here but the temperature is impeccable
and the service is just wonderful but maybe I am impressionable
I’m spelling out some letters on a paper trying to think straight
I’m recognizing I’m writing out your name

And it’s lovely how you take the day away from me 

Cataracts in the back of the mind they make things fuzzy alright
that’s really alright
I’m just a ways away safe for rainy day take a day with me or night
My skeleton is inside of me and my hunks of meat are inside of that
I realize that I make a whole but funny joke you’re inside of that
and Normally I am quite concerned with cutting loose of earthly connection
deeply disturbed by the way it’s all cinematically presented
Stimulation and loosening of my strings away up into the ether
then I see her then I see her

And it’s lovely how you take the day away from me 

Placing care above your eyes and lining
that your smile forms
Remain aware of nothing but that
you are mine and I am yours

i want my arms around u

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