2003-12-27 - retread blues
you only needed a friend
someone who's there till the end
but I was out being cool
a driven dreamer, a fool...
.
I guess I wasn't that strong
I guess my feelings were wrong
I guess I waited too long
I just got lost in my song
.
you were a victim of fear -
a memory not so dear
an evil treacherous sin
traumatic force breaking in
.
try as I might I fell short
with every breath I'd resort
to be the man that you'd need:
get on my knees, intercede
.
I was a horse running free
I bucked all captivity
you were at home feeling blue
I wasn't there much for you
.
"too little too late," they say
then someone took you away
while I was running around
you searched for some stable ground
.
I guess I wasn't that strong
I guess my feelings were wrong
I guess I waited too long
I just got lost in my song
.
man, if you got you a lady
please hear these words I'm relating
she needs your comfort and care
especi'ly when you're not there
.
make sure you're there when she's down
don't you go out on the town
don't leave her home night and day
to make that overtime pay
.
or you'll be sorry some day
you may find she went astray
you see, she may act the part
but she needs all of your heart
.
not just your smoothe talk and bling
she needs to know you're her king
something you earn with your deeds
so satisfy all her needs
.
or you'll be singing with me
a man who's single and free
desiring intimacies
so bored with hootchie missies
.
who think their snatch is a tease
they're prob'ly filled with disease
I can't be happy with these
bereft of true loyalties
.
and no I don't mean to judge
I know that men can be sluts
I'm saying, find someone true
and treat her better than you
.
for life is more than right now
you've got to live it somehow
as if your partner and you
are more important than two
.
you've got to live for the "us"
you've got to give more or bust
or you'll be over -- apart
like me -- a retread at heart
.
I guess I wasn't that strong
I guess my feelings were wrong
I guess I waited too long
I just got lost in my song
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