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Written and recorded by Joe Blackford.

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When I talk to my mother she says oh how I love you, but you're not the man I want you to be.
I spend my life under cover, with the angels and devils, and together we drink til we sleep.
So God if you're listening take the thought from my blistering mind for I'm blind to its means,
Because after all we're still living, I've got love with no limit, and that's a life worth living to me.

If I stay would you call me son, Coz I think I might be too far gone.
We’ll erase all that you've done, that's why they call it love.

I wake up each morning for my job in Carshalton, where I dream of catching the next plane,
But when I get to the airport, there's the fear in my stomach and the voice in my head that says stay.
All of this torment disappears with some rose, where we drunkenly vow to sail the world,
But by the morning the heroes we were are forgotten, and the promises made are old.

I don’t wanna hold your hand, when someday you’ll take it back,
But if we’re old then who the hell cares, at least we made it through today.
And If you leave, I will understand, maybe I’ll see you when you get back,
And you’ll find me on the same old estate, singing some birds are meant to stay.

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from What Would Kerouac Do?, released April 2, 2014
Joe Blackford.

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