1. |
What I Had To Do
04:06
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College came and college went
I got a couple life skills but mostly debt
Never should have gone it's my own damn fault
Now my credits pretty bad my loans in default
Yeah I went to school but never wanted to
Was just doing what I thought that I had to do
Doing what I thought that I had to do
Got me a job but I didn't get far
I got enough to get me that new used car
Found me a woman who didn't mind
And she works too so we pass the time
I can't say now I ever loved her true
Was just doing what I thought that I had to do
Doing what I thought that I had to do
Well you already know how this story goes
I got a couple of kids before I know
Took a job that I hated that paid me more
Its one thing to be broke, it's another to see your kids grow up poor
And I worked alot more than I wanted to
Was just doing what I thought that I had to do
Doing what I thought that I had to do
Well my wife finally left me
It's been a long time
And I barely hear from them kids of mine
But I still remember how it used to be
When my life was out in front of me
Now I got me a quiet one bedroom
To sit and think about what I had to do
To think of all the things that I had to do
I sit and think about what I had to do
I think of all the things that I had to do
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2. |
The Tunnel Has No End
02:41
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I have always struggled to accept what other people know
Don't know what it is that makes me so skeptical
I'd like to believe
That things are working out
There's a love inside the universe that never will go out
That sounds nice
But I can't let go
I have seen a light but the tunnel has no end
Just some dusty cracks where the sunlight trickles in
I flight from ray to ray as the path is slowly shown
We're better off together and yet we all try to go alone
Again I'm not sure
This is just what I've known
Trying to keep my mind engaged in my everyday
Yearning for truth and learning to accept change
I guess we learn humility by settling in life
I'm doubtful there's a reward and that informs my whole life
So when I die
Just tell 'em that I'm gone
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3. |
What Good's The Medicine
03:05
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What good is real love
If it's not forever
What good are good times
If we're not together
What good's the medicine
If you can't afford it
And you're on it forever
If somebody out there has some of the answers
Then by all means please send me a message
There's got to be some way to beat this
Please
I'm searching for something
That lasts forever
That makes me feel like
Things are better
What good's the medicine
If you can't afford it
And you're on it forever
I know that it's out there
I'm working on kicking
Every day is a fight I don't think I'm winning
Struggling for every necessary
Don't feel like living
How bad was the pain
Was it worse than what came
In this old trailer
Without any power
Finally feeling okay
But I'm searching for something
That lasts forever
That makes me feel like
Things are better
What good's the medicine
If you can't afford it
And youre on it forever
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4. |
Better Man
03:46
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When you're out there driving and you get that feeling and you don't know what it is but it feels uneasy
Even though you know things are fine right now and they've been that way for a time right now
But maybe thats the problem
You're ready for a change
Wanna move things forward but you don't know what it takes
So you. keep on driving
Hoping it'll go away
I'm just trying to be a better man
Than I been
A better man and that's all
Well I pull in my driveway and I'm sweating like hell it's funny things have been bad I'm finally doing well
But I've got a taste of the stable life and I ain't making quite enough to live it right
So i dream up schemes to get my money right
To be the man I wanna be for my kids and my wife
And if I don't make it I hope they see that I tried
Maybe I'll start at home
Make sure I'm sharing the load
Clean when I can and keep the grass mowed
No jeans in the bed if I've been wearing all night
And be patient and loving when I dont feel alright
Remember to look my wife in the eyes and tell her that I love her at the end of the night
Spend my money on others and start putting a little aside
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5. |
I Get By
02:46
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Most things in my life are a little bit bummy
Some days are good, some days are crummy
But I get by, I get by, Baby I get by
With every up there's always a down
Changes in my life, changes in my town
But I get by, I get by Baby I get by
Oh baby I get by
I get by
It takes more than a run of bad luck to change my mind
I get by
I aint saying that I thrive
I aint saying I always feel good inside
But I get by, I get by, Baby I get by
It seems like alot of use have been let down
Poverty is all around
But I get by, I get by, Baby i get by
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6. |
Did It Happen That Way
02:59
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I don’t know how you been feeling
But i ain’t been feeling great
So we talk about the good times
And forget about the pain
Remember, Wednesday nights
At Carter park
Playing peewee under real big lights
Eating cow tails
and drinking slushies
Until 9 o’clock at night
But did it happen that way
Wasn’t there heart break and pain
I couldn’t bat or catch I tried to stay in bed
did it happen that way
Wasn’t I suspended a lot
Grounded a lot
Picked on a lot
Couldn’t wait to get out on my own some day
Did it happen that way
When we talk about the future
We can’t help but talk about the past
When things were mostly better
we were still on the right path
The 60’s were fun
The 50’s got things done
and the 40’s were brave and real
Back when good still won
the bad guys would run
and america made the automobiles
But did it happen that way
Wasn’t there poverty and hate
Women were stuck in the home
Rural folks trapped all alone
As the dust bowl raged
Wasn’t there Ku Klux Klan
poor work conditions
Children working the fields
Black lung in coal mines taking young lives away
Did it happen that way
Wasn't there Viet Nam
The nuclear bomb
Segregation
And the massacres of the indian ways
Didn't it happen that way
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7. |
Damn The Working Man
05:00
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My hands are dirty
My hands are strong
My hands can hold a shovel all day long
My hands can put the work in but they can't make a living anymore
God damn the working man
God damn the working poor
I can build a giant building
I can earn a decent wage
But the people who work inside of them make me feel like I'm stuck in a different age
From a time before computers
When you'd work with your body and your mind
God damn the working man
God damn the working life
God damn the working man
To struggle every day
While the suits and ties move money around and somehow thats worth 100 times my pay
God damn the working man
They've taken so much away
There's a few folks getting richer every year while the rest of us stay the same
I put a 9 hour in the kitchen
Where the ovens'll make you fry
I need some new shoes bad but all my extra cash goes to a two pack habit and a mobile line
Some times i feel like walking
Until i finally reach the end
God damn where it started, god damn where I'm at and god damn where it all ends
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8. |
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What are you in the mood for, my mom asked of me
Lets go down to Video Spectrum and rent something
Horror and gore, art, noir, foreign or made for TV
Something that we've known by heart or thats new to you and me
What are you in the mood for, I asked my college friends
Wish ya'll coulda seen Video Spectrum, my old favorite place to rent
Closed a couple years after the Blockbuster came in
Aw I'm just reminiscing sure lets get Anchorman again
But they still had the old tapes, the stuff you'd never seen
That you couldn't find anywhere else but Video Spectrum in Bowling Green
I remember sneaking off to look at covers of the Russ Myers flicks
And I stumbled across Bukowski in a film about poets
Spending hours walking down aisles and loving every minute
Learning which employees had the best employee picks
What are you in the mood for, I asked my young son
The Red Box by the Walgreens is the only option
What did corporate pick this week
It ain't art but I guess its fun
But i wish i could have took him to Video Spectrum
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9. |
Throw Em Out
04:59
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Let’s start with what i see when I close my eyes?
I see a world built for you and I
A world built with everyone in mind
That won’t accept leaving folks behind
I dream of a society
That puts all of its energy
into eradicating poverty
And makes decisions ecologically
And I’ll tell you that I believe
That theres no excuse for it to be
This situation where so many
Are in desperate need
And if the systems that we have now
Can’t keep the cruelest of us from power
Rewarding liars cheaters and cowards
We could throw em out
As for selfish intentions and greed
Is that human nature like the christians believe
A sin passed down through the centuries
Inside each one of us apparently
Thats just not how I view humanity
Because when we've done our best historically
It's been when living in community
And solving problems collectively
Can we call ourselves free
Just because hypothetically
We havent been forced into anything
We just have no options of which to speak
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10. |
I Know About No Money
03:29
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I know about no money
I know about hard work
I know about playing the fool
I know about being the jerk
I know about no money
I know about pay day loans
I know about the car ain't running
I know about walking home
Well I like cold ham and cheese sandwhiches
But I like Peanut butter and jelly more
I like my beer of the light variety
And no matter how many I've had
I could always have a couple more
Well I like my Wrangler jeans
But I wish more things were union made
And I wear my shirts mostly unbuttoned
And I like my stuff more the less I paid
So if you see me walking down lifes highways
Won't you stop and ask if I need a ride
Because I have plenty of good days
But i still have those days that I just break down and cry
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