Name: Young Man
Duration: P00H04M30S
Description: by Reuben Chess

Young Man

from Start All Over Again [EP] by Reuben Chess

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Young man
Won't you help me try to walk across this crowded street
Can't you see I'm trying to get a little something to eat
Oh can't you see that these old shoes ain't what they used to be
But nowadays well nowadays I get to see and stroll around stroll around the scenery nowadays are our days

Young man
Five o'clock is when I like to take my coffee break make no mistakes I can't be late though I haven't seen a real job since 1900 and 98 property of the state so every month I get a government salary check that keeps me going like a brand new box of cigarettes
Nowadays nowadays I start to dream nowadays were our days

Half as bad is good enough for me, so far for now
And half as far ain't far too much to see so far somehow
Half as bad is good enough for me oh yeah
but half as bad ain't what it used to be

Young man
My loving family left me many many years ago, why I don't know no I don't know, but now and then I get to talk to them on the telephone, and my how they've grown in another time zone grandchildren playing in a distant place, but everybody always tell me that they got my face, nowadays well nowadays I start to dream nowadays are our days

Half as bad is good enough for me, so far for now
And half as far ain't far too much to see so far somehow
Half as bad is good enough for me oh yeah
but half as bad ain't what it used to be

I can't tell if I'm living or dieing laughing or crying
I can't tell if I see the horizon or the stars colliding
All I know is I'm trying I'm trying hard
All I know is I'm trying I'm trying hard

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from Start All Over Again [EP], released August 18, 2011
Produced & Written by Reuben Chess
Executive Produced by James Allen
Mixed by Assaf Spector
Recorded by Matty Muir
Performed by Quintus
Reuben Chess - lead vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, bells
Mike Riddleberger - drums, percussion, backup vocals
David Dawda - bass, backup vocals, banjo
David Melton - piano, organ, backup vocals

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