By the second verse, dear friends
My head will burst, my life will end
So I'd like to start this one off by saying
Live
and
love
I was young and at home in bed
And I was hanging on the words some poem said in '31
I was impressionable, I was upsettable
I tried to make my breathing stop
Or my heartbeat slow
So when my mom and John came in I would be cold
From a bridge on Washington Avenue
The year of 1972, broke my bones and skull
And it was memorable
It was half a second in, I was halfway down
Do you think I wanted to turn back around and teach a class
Where you kiss the ass that I've exposed to you?
And at the funeral, the university
Cried at three poems they'd present
In place of a broken me
I was breaking in a case of suds at the Brass Rail
A fall-down drunk with his tongue torn out
And his balls removed
And I knew that my last lines were gone
While, stupidly, I lingered on
Oh, but wise men know when it's time to go
And so I should, too
And so I fly into the brightest winter sun
Of this frozen town, I'm stripped down to move on
My friends, I'm gone
Well, I hear my father fall
And I hear my mother call
And I hear the others all whispering, Come
home
I'm sorry to go
I loved you all so
But this is the worst trip I've ever been on
So hoist up the [John B.] sail
See how the mainsail sets
I'm full in my heart and my head
And I want to go home
With a book in my hand
In the way I had planned
Well, this is the worst trip I've ever been on
Hoist up the [John B.] sail
See how the mainsail sets
I'm full in my heart and my head
And I want to go home
With a book in each hand
In the way I had planned
Well, I feel so broke up, I want to go home
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- Black Sheep Boy
- Black Sheep Boy Early Drafts On The Road, 2004
- The Silver Gymnasium
- Golden Opportunities 3
- The Stage Names
- I Am Very Far
- The Stand Ins
- Miscellaneous
- Mermaid (Single)
- Away
- Wake and Be Fine / Weave Room Blues
- Wake and Be Fine b/w Weave Room Blues
- Your Past Life As a Blast
- Your Past Life As a Blast / Gold Faces
- Your Past Life As A Blast b/w Gold Faces
- Sleep and Wake-Up Songs
- Sleep & Wake-Up Songs
- Reason To Believe - The Songs of Tim Hardin
- Shiloh Town
- Reason to Believe - The Songs of Tim Hardin (Bonus Track...