Long Road Taken

from Make Music Monday Ver 1.0 by Jemibook

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Drive around in your good ole fashioned truck
Wear your shades and sip coffee from your mug
And you don't even mind, the time you'll spend in traffic
You've been driving here for too long.

Come and pick her up
She's that sparkle in your eye
Tell her she means the world, but she'll just try to deny
Your honesty and well-mannered views just seem like a lie.

You could carry on, day by day
Live your life the way you've seen in the film.
Read your paper on sunday, fashion your eggs with your toast.
But it don't mean thing in this world, anymore.

Old Time Fella, in the new world.
you're out with the day old bread.
they don't care to shine you're shoes
It's out with the old and in with the new

Work your job to the bone
You're replaced with a machine
Try your best to see the best in everything
You'll keep one with nature and whistle breathlessly
While walking down the streets where you've always lived

Now they're asking you to say goodbye
to everything that you've ever believed in
trade your values and morals in
For a shiny pair of contacts filled with lies

But you would rather be
sittin' in a mueseum
gatherin' dust and cracking at the edges
then trying to make something fit
that just shouldn't even be, a passin' thought among your lips

Old Time Fella, in the new world
close your eyes as you fall asleep
pray to god and you whisper
I won't let tomorrow get the best of me

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from Make Music Monday Ver 1.0, released July 1, 2008

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Jemibook Oakland, California

Jemibook came to be one day late in 2006 when Jem realized that it's easier to pick up a toy ukulele at a wal-mart and make your own band then wait around for people's schedules to work out together.

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