What a Shame

Oh, if my life rode on a ship
 I'd chase down some hurricanes
 We'd have stories once
 Those howling winds had passed
 And if I wanted my whole life
 To be laid out in black and white
 I'd have turned my weathered sails
 Some time ago
 But I stayed steady on that stream
 With river rocks and gasoline
 Bumpin' curbs on every turn
 We would make
 The friends we made and lovers past
 Bail bond loans and Sunday Mass
 They have opened up
 A newer life to me
 Well, what a shame, a crying shame
 Nine to five, it's all the same
 But you won't take those wasted hours
 To your grave
 And oh, good God don't rest my soul
 And let myself fall to a fold
 I'm still running and a racing
 Wishing on a fallen star
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 And how much money meets your desire?
 And how much heat can you take 'fore you feel the fire?
 I don't think it's worth the pain
 But who am I to say?
 Because I feel like every other day I sing
 Another sad song about living free
 I lose another little piece of the puzzle
 That got me here
 Another roadhouse fight cast down by sin
 Another blow out ten miles from town again
 Another sold out night that makes it worth the fight
 And the life I want to live
 If I'd love the lord by
 Sing loud 'til they turn out your very last light
 When you're gone
 What do you have but the song you sang?
 And there ain't no one to kill me back
 I can't change my ways once I felt like that
 If I'd have won
 In a life full of memories
 What a shame, a crying shame
 Nine to five it's all the same
 But you won't take those wasted hours
 To your grave
 And as I watch my hour glass
 Grains of sand are like days of past
 Brace the storm, this is your love
 Your life, your task
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 And as I watch my hour glass
 Grains of sand are like days of past
 Brace the storm, this is your love
 Your life, your task