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People make the best of it, you know your time is short
The girls you screw could end up being so much more than sport
Babies are expensive, you better count your ends
Your going up the junction, say goodbye to all your friends
Gotta sell the amplifier and stop selling dope
Gonna have to man up now, this ain't no time to mope
Ain't no time for laying blame, leave poor you alone
The choices that you made are all your own

"Hey it's Derek calling, been a while, man, how you been?"
"Well I work, come home, eat dinner, every night I'm in bed by ten
It's excruciating really, if you wanna know the truth
It's like I'm trying to throw a punch inside a telephone booth
But It's right around the corner, man, she's only three months due
And whether or not it's a girl or boy you can go ahead and write me the blues"
"Man, you need to get out more, let's go and hit the bars"
"Well I would, but Wednesday night is Dancing With The Stars, I don't think I can get away"

"God, it must be tough to have to up and change your ways
Even though you used to say your life was in a haze
A fog without a beacon, a stump without a stem
Chasing every whim
Seventeen it came and went and eighteen's over, too
They say that twenty one's the last real birthday, do you think this is true?"
"Well I must admit I did for a few years there
But when the baby came along it kind of upended my despair
And now it's her birthdays that we look forward to celebrating
It's funny I feel lighter now that I'm pulling my own weight"
"Hey, that's really great, sounds like you're doing swell
Still, I wish you'd come to pick-up games and drinking at The Well
I guess the good old days are over"
"Nah, they're only changing hands
It just means that I've become ok with sittin in the stands

Cuz I was done being a kid but didn't yet know it
Scared to death and afraid to show it
Couldn't help thinking that this is the end
But It's the closest that you'll come to starting over again"

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from Eleven For The Road, released July 3, 2014

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Benjamin Shepherd Richmond, Virginia

Southern antifolk with a lyrical focus.

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