The Half of It
For people who've traveled all over, loved and lost, won and lost, etc, they can tell you some amazing stories, though that's not even half of what they've been through. I felt like I wanted to express this in a song, so here are some of the travels - but only about the half of it all. The chorus is progressive in vocalization, midway through and picking up for the end.
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I got laid off down in Georgia
Caught me drinking on the job
Headed north through Tennessee
Hopped on a train but not back off
Wound up in the Adirondacks
With a girl named Valentine
Stole my watch and my blue jeans
But at least that girl was mine
(Chorus)
And that's not the half of it
All the places that I've been
The black cats that crossed my trail
What I've seen, all of the sin
Watch you don't step in the shards
Of broken mirrors in my wake
Had bad luck since I could spell it
Wouldn't know another way
And that's not the half of it
Mined for gold in Colorado
Months drew bare, I'll count the loss
Then the bastards struck a vein
The day after I took off
Off to fare the nights in Reno
Struck my gold on roulette wheels
Then they robbed me in the lobby
Can't break even in that deal
(Chorus)
I got married down in Texas
Honeymooned down in Cancun
Then she left me three weeks later
For some highborn silver spoon
Hitched my way through Arizona
Scalding sand and rattlesnakes
Met some hippies, damn near killed me
Slipped peyote in my drink
(Chorus)
Headed east through Carolina
Was in the spring of ninety-nine
Got evicted from my motel
And I had to sleep outside
Tried to build my fame in dive bars
Songs to sell, all that I owned
But they stole my greatest hits
Now play 'em on the radio
(Chorus)
© Brian Hendrix 2020