Better Days
from Lowlife Dreams EP by Skunkmello
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Words and music by Matt Bartlett.
lyrics
Better Days
I asked the man on the corner
For a twenty-five cent loan
Long distance, insistence
On the telephone
Connect me operator
Said now I got to make a call
Word to the instigator
Found the number on the bathroom wall
No meaning in the search-light
No purpose there to find
Just a junkyard-ramble in the moonlight
A burnt out plea of some kind
To live a Life
Of a passing time
Escape the strife
Of this world of mine
Runaway
'Neath the yellow moon
Better days
Yeah better days are coming soon
Passed an ancient scholar
Gold buttons on his shirt
Preaching for the dollar
Clinging to his dirt
But I saw what he was dealing
Five jokers to a hand
I said a second of this feeling
Is worth more than all your sand
And I walked past
His life of little thrill
Free at last
To wander as I will
Runaway
'Neath the yellow moon
Better days
Yeah, better days are coming soon
I asked the man on the corner
For a twenty-five cent loan
Long distance, insistence
On the telephone
Connect me operator
Said now I got to make a call
Word to the instigator
Found the number on the bathroom wall
No meaning in the search-light
No purpose there to find
Just a junkyard-ramble in the moonlight
A burnt out plea of some kind
To live a Life
Of a passing time
Escape the strife
Of this world of mine
Runaway
'Neath the yellow moon
Better days
Yeah better days are coming soon
Passed an ancient scholar
Gold buttons on his shirt
Preaching for the dollar
Clinging to his dirt
But I saw what he was dealing
Five jokers to a hand
I said a second of this feeling
Is worth more than all your sand
And I walked past
His life of little thrill
Free at last
To wander as I will
Runaway
'Neath the yellow moon
Better days
Yeah, better days are coming soon
credits
from Lowlife Dreams EP,
released June 15, 2013
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Skunkmello New York, New York
Sewer blues and gutter grooves for the barefooted and absent minded.
discography
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