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Featuring
Blake Taylor on Harmonica
lyrics
I’m tryin' to get some sleep
I’m tryin' to get some rest
you know it’s been a while
I’ve been running round this country so long
I’ve been through Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana
Washington Houston, shit man, wrong song
like i said, it’s been a while
and I’m tryin' to get my head on straight
that collection man’s been calling me for days
and I still gotta pay my rent
I'm home for three days and two of em I'm working
before I'm on the road again
that ain’t much time to keep my home-life going
and tie up all of my loose ends
well my baby keep's complaining, you know she keeps saying
that i ain’t calling home enough
so I’m trying to get my life together, hell the best that i can
living by the wheel of a van
well it ain’t easy, but you get what you put in
my life will be full of living and losing but I’d never let that do me in
all hell can’t stop me, it’s just the way I’ve always been
I’m gonna live this way, I get to die this way
running the highways of American dreams
Hell I don’t mind, I’ve spent enough time
doing what other told me to
got me burnt out and losing it, trying to make the best it
i’d done everything thing I could do
at a fork in the road, about four ways to go
I put it all on the line
I did what I wanted to, made a plan, saw it through
and left that old life behind
this is my 9-5, best that I could find
but I’m gonna make it work, i ain’t got much else in line
gotta hit the road, gone another night
Gonna hope ol' desi don’t put up a fight
well it ain’t easy, but you get what you put in
my life will be full of living and losing but I’d never let that do me in
all hell can’t stop me, it’s just the way I’ve always been
I’m gonna live this way, I get to die this way
running the highways of American dreams
credits
from American Dreams,
released May 1, 2018
Joe Macheret - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Ben Sweeney - electric guitar
Andrew Mcpheters - vocals, banjo
Dave Hathaway - bass
Aaron Cordell - drums
Mixed and engineered by Jacob Tippey
Produced by Joe Macheret and Jacob Tippey
Album art by Kelley Wills
Recorded at Ultrasuede Studios, Curtis Visual Communications, and the Martini Church
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