Category: Rites of Passage
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Squirt, Beer Nuts, and You
I remember the first time I tasted it I must have been oh, about fifteen I got some on my Mack Truck shirt I thought I was the man on the scene But I wasn’t the guy I hoped I was Till that summer at camp when I changed for the better because You turned […]
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The Movie We Made
It’s the movie we made Without filming it to be shown It was just for ourselves It was for us alone It’s the movie we made It oftentimes in my mind It’s a past I can’t shake Or even get behind It’s the people I left It’s the ones who left me It’s the regrets […]
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Friends Live On In You
Tonight we’re like the teens we were years after we faced our fears All sitting around at this reunion Laughing and in our eyes are tears There’s no one out to get us now There’s nobody we can blame For how our lives all turned out At least nothing stayed the same I look back […]
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Baseball On My Brain
Inspired by Chuck Brodsky and Philip Bechis Clark You say I’m acting different now You say I’m getting really weird You say I’m a bit too obsessive It’s not as bad as you feared No, I’m not going crazy I haven’t gone insane I’m just excited about Opening Day It’s Major League Baseball on my […]
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Country Girls in a Wagoneer
Packed it up for the three day weekendThe 4 of them are on a quest for funHeadin’ up to the cabin for a good timeFor some drinkin’, grillin’ & sun Takes all day just to get thereBut they’ve got their music up loudTheir hair’s dancin’ ‘n they’re singin’Like they’re on stage in front of a […]
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Where’s My Veronica?
She’s the girl on my street She’s light on her feet She knows me all too well I like her so, so much Though our lips never touched And her secrets I won’t tell And if she’s my Betty Then where’s my Veronica? Yeah if she’s my Betty Then where’s my Veronica? If she’s not […]
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Our Moonlight Swim
We met out at the lake with towels covering our lifeguard swimsuits It was us, the mountain air, pines and water we loved so much And we ran toward our unknown future without fear or worries It was during the same summer When I blew out your VW’s clutch Our close friends knew but our […]
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More than a Hookup
She and I were friends back in high schoolWe went bowling and hung out all the timeShe was one of my best friends back thenShe was my confidant, my partner in crime She went off to study theatre out in EugeneI stayed back home and wrote song after songAnd we went out for my twenty […]
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RC and a Moonpie
We were young Too young for love of any kind But still, I tried I desired to blow your little mind We went down to the General Store I spent silver dollars and a dime Just so you and I could share our first RC and a Moonpie I was twelve You were going on […]