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Smilin' at Nothin' (for Paul)

from Yonderings by Joe's Truck Stop

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Why don’t you find a stream and lose your shoes
Walk on in, what you gotta lose
You could take a nap on the carpet in the hall
If anybody asks you, you’re just waiting on a call
Or you could toss a ball against the wall
Or draw portrait of yourself, but you’re ten foot tall
You could tramp around from town to town
Hop a freight right out the gate and ride your heart up off the ground

You could go for a wander, you could take a hike
If you don’t like to walk, you could ride a bike
Ride off into the sunset or ride it on home
Ride it to Montana where the buffalo roam
Or you could ride ‘til you can’t ride anymore
You’ve got grit in your teeth and your ass is all sore
There’s dark clouds arising and wouldn’t you know
Sometimes you gotta get rained on if you wanna grow, so

Go outside and get to doing something
Look up at a tree or smile at nothing
Think about your mama and what your pops taught ya
Or don’t, you don’t have to think if you don’t want to
You’ve just gotta keep moving, keep on moving along
If it does you any good well you could sing this song
Just whatever you do, make sure that it’s something
Even if you’re smiling at nothing

So you say you lost your way, it happened yesterday
You were talking to yourself and kept forgetting what to say
So you wrote yourself a letter, said give me a day
And wrote yourself back, said hey that’s okay
Well there’s an ocean of heartache at every turn
If you don’t know how to swim you might want to learn
If you don’t know how to learn don’t think that you can’t
That water’s steady rising and I’m reaching out my hand

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from Yonderings, released April 29, 2022

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