Lyrics
Convenience Store Blues
Sad State Of Affairs
Hats
Broken Promises
Cross That Line
Earth Blues
So Many Days
The Good Life
I don’t go where most folks go
Been down so long, I’m livin’ low
When I need my things, Only place I know
Got my Smokes, beer and Fritos
ain't no bargains, oh lord, it's true
Guess I got them 2x
Convenience store blues
Lit up bright 24/7 too
Real buzz killer, you know it’s true
Not much really good for you
Ain’t much that could pass for food
Ain’t no bargains, oh lord, it’s true
Guess I got them
Convenience store blues
My whole family shops here too
M&M’s and cold beer too
Auto Mags and generic smokes
All junk food and surly folks
Ain’t no bargains, oh lord, it’s true
Guess I got them 2x
Convenience store blues
c2007 - Cody
Everybody says it’s ok
Everybody says it’s alright
Everybody else is doing it
Ain’t no reason to get uptight
What’s so bad about a quick one
Just a little grown-up fun
Chorus
It’s a sad state of affairs
When you hurt the one you love
It’s a sad state of affairs
When you lie to the one
Break the one you love
It’s easy now to justify
The things you do, the little white lie
Curiosity mixed with pride
C’mon now, compartmentalize
Now it’s finally skin on skin
You’re on the slippery slope of sin
It’s not like an cool French movie
Cigarettes and afternoons
Rendezvous of stolen moments
Curtains drawn in strange bedrooms
In real life, there’s real bad news
Someone’s trusting heart’s abused
Hats
c2007 - Cody
Lately, I’ve been thinkin’
Bout this great spot in my life
Is this the beginning?
Of my long walk into night
It’s one thing or another
Bones or surgery
I wanna live forever
Hey! Still a kid inside of me
Gonna need a hat to feel real special
Gonna need a hat to look real cool
Gonna need a hat to keep your baby
Hangin’ around you
Gonna need a hat to hide your secrets
Gonna need a hat to have some fun
Gonna need a hat to get somebody
A hat to be someone
I know somebody
Good friend of mine too
Card-carrying rock’n’roller
He lived it hard & full
He lived it like he meant it
Kept it real & true
But, when he turned 50
His chickens came home to roost
Getting hard to stay skinny
And my hair does what it wants
The whole damn things a nuisance
I’m gonna move to France
Turn up my guitar
Play it one more time
Hear that tremolo singin’
Man, don’t it sound fine
Broken Promises
© 2002 Cody Sokolski
I get up in the morning and I go downtown
Do my job and I don't bring down
Nose to the grindstone till I get back home
Doing what I have to do
I tell my boy go to school
Sure to follow Jah's golden rule
Don't be no punk-ass stupid fool
And you'll get what's coming to you
This they swear is true
Broken promises
Broken promises
Broken promises
Lies they tell to keep ya you down
Now my wife, she work all day
Work real hard for not much pay
But money for a home we try to save
Hoping that the dream is true
Now it's all becoming clear
Rich man's words are insincere
Just to keep me working for a little beer
All my struggles in vain
He don't even know my name
Maybe not now, maybe next year
Riots in the street everywhere
People gonna die for a piece of nowhere
What a wasted life it's been
Oh what a horrible sin
Just like the Native American
promises made to be broken
Everything promised, didn't mean a thing
When the money comes into view
This I swear is true
Cross That Line
When the honesty's gone
There’s no going back (2x)
When the honesty's gone
Like a train leaped the track
It's a mess all around and there ain’t to get back
When you cross that line
During a drunken time
When you cross that line
You're gonna blame the wine
When you cross that line
You must have lost your mind
When you cross that line there just ain't no turning back
Now you messed up your life
And your woman's too
Really messed up your life
Messed up your woman's too
Really messed up your life
Now she don't want you
Traded one night of stupid for a lifetime of loneliness
Earth Blues
© 2002 Cody Sokolski
Been down on this earth
For way too many years
And just wanna know dear lord
If anybody beat their fears
I seen a lotta hate
I felt a lotta pain
I just wanna know dear Lord
If anybody feels the same
Oh oh I feel so left out
Oh, oh, so small in the sea
Oh, does anybody hear me
Oh, does anybody see
Moses, Buddha Jesus
Old Mohammed too
Sittin' up in heaven
Wondrin' what to do
Their kids have blown their message
We haven't got a clue
Can't wait to kill each other
And blame it on you
Babies going hungry
Kids ain't got no shoes
Look into their faces man
We refuse to see the truth
I guess I'm gettin' tired
Tired of this grief
Somebody stole my soul
Nobody cried thief
The rain is comin' down
Might wash away our sins
But when it's all over
I'm still alone again
So Many Days
So many days
So many nights
So many tears
So many fights
It just ain't right
Just ain't fair
Just ain't cool
Just ain't Fine
To treat me this way
I just don't know why
I just don't know why
Too many tears
Too many lies
Too many fears
No place to hide
It just ain't right
Just ain't fair
Just ain't cool
Don't know why
You treat me this way
And I don't know why baby
It's a hurtin' game you play
4 in the morning
I'm all alone
No one's callin'
On the phone
It just ain't right
Just ain't cool
Just ain't fair
To be such a fool
And I can't go on
And I can't go on This way
So much wine
Too much sin
Goodbye goodtimes
That coulda been
It just ain't right
Just ain't fair
Just ain't cool
Just ain't Fine
To throw this love away
And I don't know why baby
You do me this way
The Good Life
don't be sad
you're living the good life
don't be sad
got yourself a good wife
don't be mad
you got everything
just be glad
you can buy anything
and you got the good life 3x
why is it
your eyes are starting to look around
why is it
everynight you go out
can't you see
things are getting rough
can't you see
life is tough
chorus
can't you see
you're living the good life
why ain't you lovin' the good life
life's a dream
a sometime thing
living it seems
can make you lose your mind
your mind is wanderin'
can't focus at all
your time is going
can't you see
you're living the good life
how come you worried if you are living the good life
bridge: bm c-g ñd
you got all the money
that you'll ever need
but all that money
just can't set you free
well you got new cars
and imports are next
but everynight
you go to sleep vexed
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