Lucky Enough (Poem)

[00:13.58] If I'm lucky enough
[00:14.33] I'll see fogs lift with suns as we roll to play a show
[00:17.20] In Carolina, Oklahoma, or Chicago
[00:19.93] I'll grow to know the road to home in places far away
[00:22.82] Wrinkled, bald, and beat to shit, to never waste a day
[00:26.78] Enough people will hate me that I know I did it right
[00:29.20] But to never meet a human being that I say that I don't like
[00:33.50] Let me learn the hard way and cut it close sometimes
[00:35.92] That use the attic chest where every lesson lies
[00:40.12] I'll have some kids and teach them that we are all the same
[00:42.83] Sufferin', smilin', silhouettes of every passin' day
[00:53.51] The love I have will always be something my friends yearn
[00:56.59] My memories were never cheap and never easy earned
[01:00.36] I hope to choke on jack and coke in a bar during a northern winter
[01:03.66] On a night the band was tight and right as rooftop lights flicker
[01:08.24] If I'm lucky enough, I'll understand losing someone close
[01:10.62] I'll clench my teeth on New Year's Eve and try to talk to ghosts
[01:14.28] I'll stumble through a market on a Sunday day in June
[01:16.61] Smell the salt and asphalt on a Sunday afternoon
[01:21.03] I reckon I'd be lucky if I made it half as far
[01:23.54] To only die on hills that are closest to my heart
[01:27.94] If I'm lucky enough, notebooks will be strewn across my room
[01:30.61] Or play catch on green grass with spring time flower bloom
[01:40.76] If I'm lucky enough, I'll tell the truth every chance I get
[01:43.48] 'Cause smiles faked to appease another is worth ten regrets
[01:47.03] If I'm lucky enough, I will get through hard things
[01:49.26] And they will make me gentle to the ways of the world
[01:54.46] If I'm lucky enough, I'll have the courage to leave and go
[01:56.90] Wherever my beatin' heart tells me to go
[01:59.82] If I'm lucky enough, I'll get high and invite a guitarist over
[02:02.86] And he'll play sweet notes until a New York City's rooftop sunrises
[02:07.57] I'll meet some kids in school that still know how to play instruments
[02:13.06] If I'm lucky enough, I'll make it exactly to where I'm taking this breath now
[02:16.56] Lay my head upon the Earth and laugh at passing clouds
[02:19.50] If I'm lucky enough, I'll remember the shaky things we've seen
[02:22.58] Grab your beer through tears and fears, the great American bar scene
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