Misc Originals – Clay Wisner - The B-Side Of Life (Guitar)

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Got a new car at sixteen, king of that school scene

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Sitting on top of the world

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Acin' his classes, compltetin' his passes

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With the football and with the girls

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His folks wer so pround, they'd say it out loud

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He was destinned for mountaintop heights

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He was in the groove and far too smooth for the B-Side of Life

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At thirty-three, feeling no longer free

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With the wife, two kids and the mutt

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The groove it got slicker with Mr. Jameson's liquor

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But to him it felt like a rut

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Started playing some poker on Fridays with jokers

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That gave him a break from the wife

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But at home in the mirror, his youth was no nearer,

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And he glimpsed the B-Side of life

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Come forty-five feeling barely alive

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As he knocked back another round

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His wife hand't cried when she left him

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And the kids say he let them down

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Spending nights with the spins instead of his friends

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Brain warped, chest feeling tight

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He was never sober, and he'd finally flepped over

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To the B-Side of Life

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Life spins you round, like a record right round

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As the tune plays on til its end

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But you learn to relax and listen

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And that's where this song truly begins

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Cuz at seventy-eight he acceopted his fate

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As he prayed a simple prayer

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A lifetime of clickin' and poppin' and skippin'

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Had finally brought him there

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A nurse by his bed, as an angel led him

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Away from all stress and strife

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It was a sweet release 'caouse he'd finally made peace

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With the B-side of Life

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Yeah it's a sweet release when we finally make peace

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With the B-Side of Life