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Ring Rust

Falling Down

do not want to be in a better place
i survive
All that we could have seen
if i kept an eye
dont think you will believe me anyway so 
I lie so I lie
so much we could have been 
if we spent more time

just let her go
go with the flow
you might find out in mean time you're fine alone

your friends all know
you have grown old
hands in your pocket head down content to do as youre told

you may get cold
and still you roam
in no direction stumble upon a home

you wouldn't know wouldn't know


And i am rooted in the present tense
I'm alive Im alive
chasing after my dreams must invest more time
now all my struggles started to make sense
I arrived I arrived
not long ago it seemed I failed all I tried.

I arrived

Your story's old
but it's very rarely told
You've got a home
where you're barely even known

You wanna go
it's a one way road for sure
don't even know 
what tomorrow has in store

take a chance
what could it cost
go to Rehab
get off the junk
and the sauce
 
I'm so unsure
there is no good way to start
informed your girl
her reaction broke my heart

down in your hole
if i could I'd pull you out
that Goddamn dope
took a hit you can't walk off

in all my days
I never thought
can't find your way
when we found out
you were lost

your story

yeah, uhh, whoa, huh

Was just a little younger 
but damn 
was so much dumber
before the roads
that i've been down

Rock me down to my core
come ear get hold of me
shake me straight to my bone
resonant frequencies shatters me

Maybe I'm an old man
I'm hanging on too long
the thought had just occured to me
I never had much game in the days
back when i'd spread it around
got that feeling now

Lately I've been told that
my days have come and gone
oh now it's coming back to me
I was just a little younger 
but damn 
was so much dumber
before the roads
that i've been down

Hold me, Shakin shaking shaking shaking me

Maybe I'm an old man
I'm hanging on too long
the thought had just occured to me
I never had much game in the days
back when i'd spread it around
got that feeling now

Has Been

Everybody leaving where they gone
i Turn this party up again
I'm am down to hang out well passed dawn
Nowhere that I would be instead

oo think again you were so lost in her eye
for  mixed up reasons you cried 
as she told you she'd leave for hawaii 

i lost track of my baby all night long
could use myself a another friend
wheres that little lady that i've drawn
I'd like to talk to her again

oo think again you were so lost in her eye
for  mixed up reasons you cried 
as she told you she'd leave for hawaii

Nowhere I Would Be Instead

They used to tell me not to runaround run around
They ran me out of this Goddamn town
I don't know what I will be bringing along

They had me going I could never leave never leave
That sort of thing that I would believe
I know I was so easily deceived

I did not notice it was time to go time to go
Forget the places that I used to know
I have another place to call home

I used to threaten that I run away run away
Got Mom's heart racing every night and day
I don't care what my teacher and the doctors say

They got me winded cause I'm on the run on the run
Cannot recall the boy that I once was
Back in the day I was a good ole son

My daddy told me that I go to fast go to fast
Keep up this pace you will never last
I don't remember that I ever asked

There are so many things you never knew never knew
You don't know half the shit that I'd been through
If you were me you would be running too

Run Around

now that you're free
goddamn what you think was it getting rough
they never told till youre old enouigh
cant understand  till you're all grown up

you gotta breathe
make you're way out the  back door and not front 
juyst hit the road yeah forget your stuff 
cant gain your trust back im outta luck

what did i take
can i break away from all these troiubled days
fake the right path till it is your way
can't be a good boy i feel so strange

mostly awake
for heaven sake boy you know that you gotta change
what would my boys of the past been saying
goddamn it hard to look like im playing

Can't Be a Goodboy

Old Rules

gambling
yours and mine too
yeah i roll for dreams

you never seen
a man that out do
your most recent flinng

hear them sing hear them sing

you wanna drive
dont take you  time
i got the keys wanna gotta to see you fly

hey lets go
leave behind
theres another way we'll see some other time



I'll never leave
the places i knew
i cant let them be

jealously
make you go do 
bad and crazy thing

Got The Keys

reggae/rock/chill/bedroom/indie

one man in a bedroom, made on Audacity

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Jim Barrett