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Roll On

Simon Joyner

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Intro : C

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You were up to your necklace  in drunk friends and wreckage 
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when the New Year
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Stepped out of the past through the rose colored glass 
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and dropped you off here
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With a broken kazoo, a faded marijuana tattoo,  and confetti in your hair
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Now you're Jesus' age, \but you've only been betrayed by the calendar


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Your mother remarried 

after your father was buried 
         C
in this sailor's suit
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Now she sells real estate, 

he floats in his grave, 
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and neither has much to say to you
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So you follow a cloud 
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to a Betsy Ross shroud and see the wind try to rip it in two
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But it don't make you feel any better 

when you're under the weather 
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and it's hanging over you

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It's fading, It's fading
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So what are you going to do now?
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All America asked was for you to mow the grass,
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But you're thinking of throwing in the towel
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Roll on, Roll on, Roll on

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Mystery is bandaged 

with routine, Plaster-of-Paris, 
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and mosquito net
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While paint thinner blades 
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strip the windshield of salt cake and sunset
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Someone once said 

the humble would stumbled 
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onto something long forgotten and ravaged,
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But your dreams soak the pillow 
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just as a thimble of rain feeds the cactus


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So drain your bruises, 

cut your scapegoats loose 
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and confess ignorance
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Pull a metaphor out of a river 
                       C
or a door and add your fingerprints
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You could always go west 

just like the rest 
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and bury your head into the hot sand
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Or you could dust your broom 
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and dissolve the moon on your eyelids
 

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It's fading, It's fading
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So what are you going to do now?
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All America asked was for you to mow the grass,
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But you're thinking of throwing in the towel
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Roll on, Roll on, Roll on

Enjoy.

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Roll On

Simon Joyner