Ron Pope - Work

Carhart jacket on 5:30 AM
Feelin' like the ace of spades
Fifteen years old
Work till the sun comes
Then I'm off to school again

Workin' my back as a young man
Taught me I'd rather work my mind
So we'd cop a little smoke
And crack a couple jokes
Just tryin' to learn to survive

I wanted to work to live
No not just live to work
I had a pain deep in my bones
Beneath my t-shirt
Was a young man singin'
An old man's song
Payin' with my last dimes
But workin' to live
Beats livin' to work anytime

I had a teacher
She told my mother
That she better find me a trade
Because boys like me
Well we all grow up
To be long term guest of the state

I worked hard because I had to
I never found much luck
Till' I built my world round' a georgia girl
Who told me that I was enough

I wanted to work to live
No not just live to work
I had a pain deep in my bones
Beneath my t-shirt
Was a young man singin'
An old man's song
Payin' with my last dimes
But workin' to live
Beats livin' to work anytime

Sometimes at night I wake with a shiver
Sweat soakin' clean through my sheets
Then I remember I am who I am
Not who the said I would be

I wasn't born with nothin'
Cept' a voice and common sense
Maybe that's why I took off runnin'
The firstchance that I had

I wanted to work to live
No not just live to work
I had a pain deep in my bones
Beneath my t-shirt
Was a young man singin'
An old man's song
Payin' with my last dimes
But workin' to live
Beats livin' to work anytime

Workin' to live
Beats livin' to work anytime