A Better Day

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Tell me what’s so wrong with singing Jackson Browne
Or sitting quiet when the singing does no good?
Tell me why you’ll paint a hundred portriats of a hundred perfect strangers
When you came to paint the sunset over Tabagauche

It’s America. We got bills to pay
Keep on showing up and hoping for a better day

Tell me what’s the number I should shoot for in my 401k
Before I can leave this place and go out on my own
I should be thankful for the good things that I’ve had, don’t I know it…
Have I stepped in the same trap as every man I’ve ever known
Though I smelled it from a mile away?
Traded hope in dimes and pennies for security
Found it wasn’t quite the life that I expected it to be

In America. We got bills to pay
Keep on showing up and hoping for a better day

And on that day, the list grows ever longer what I want to do
Twenty years of wishes that I’ve held onto
I hope I’m strong and I live long enough to make it worthwhile.

Tell me what’s so wrong with singing Jackson Browne
Or sitting quiet when the singing does no good.

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from John Depew, released February 16, 2021

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bluegrass-adjacent songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. frier of chicken, salad eater, coffee drinker.

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