when I was a kid she said
I had a poet’s point of view
and the scars on my heart
they prove that’s true
I didn’t want to be different,
but there was nothing I could do
couldn’t change the way I look, and when I look,
I see all the way through
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now I got seven guitars and a tele tattoo
and I’ve played enough bars to have the right to
maybe I will never be a star but I know I can’t quit
‘cause when I play this guitar
I can almost make the pieces fit
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I used to stare into the night air night after night
a lonely kid who never did anything right
then I got set free on a life of sweet crime
when I played a guitar the first time
I suppose there are those
who think it’s just a foolish game
maximum exposure for minimum fame
and no one has meant it yet
when they’ve whispered my name
but sweet words in your ear
or the audience’s cheers
it’s basically the same