Willie Loman

from Happy to Be Here by Runnerup

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I gotta wonder
If a word I say gets through to your mind, boy
Your mind, boy
And I gotta wonder
What it even is I tried to find, boy

Every night I’d kneel down
Only thing I asked for was kindness
Sweet kindness
But that dream is over now
You showed me that faith just leads to blindness

When they ask about you years from now
What can I say, what can I say

Stop complaining, think there’s time for your crisis?
So spineless
I gotta break it to ya
Those bygone years were never priceless

All the days that gone by
You never once learned something from hindsight
Well, I’m cashing out my time
When the bills come in you better not think twice

When they ask about you years from now
What can I say, I’m gonna say

Boy, he didn’t get it from me
I had a spine at his age
Always told don’t let it show
But he always goes and pours his heart out
Oh what can I say? Lord knows I tried
To make the man to be
But for now, we’ll have to see where it goes
He didn’t get it from me

And I still maintain
You had the guns, but not the aim
And when they judge me at heavens gate
I know what I’ll say

Boy, he didn’t get it from me
I had a spine at his age
Always told don’t let it show
But he always goes and pours his heart out
Oh what can I say? Lord knows I tried
To make the man to be
But for now, we’ll have to see where it goes
He didn’t get it from me

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from Happy to Be Here, released January 31, 2019

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