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The Way It Goes

from Ted Edited It EP by Rusty Things

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Well no park bench ever felt as cold
as this one right here
as the old man wiped his hands
and took out his pink slip to wipe his tears
he said fifty years wasn't enogh
i guess i just never had the stuff i need
to succeed in this game of life
the wrinkles on his face are pages of a story
that tell the tall tale of the fall and fail

Of a man who could have been anything
if he just kept his eyes open wide
to the wars that he fought inside
the truth he was never taught
i can still hear all those voices cry

so the story goes two decades old
saw my number written in the centerfold
of the newspaper my mother read everyday
and said goodbye with a wave
and then my life changed had to be a man
with a helmet on my head gun in my hand
i obey what they say in this time of need
the uniform felt more than just the clothes on my back
a way to mask the fact i was not the same

Just a man who could have been anything
if he just kept his eyes open wide
to the wars that he fought inside
the truth he was never taught
i can still hear all those voices cry

This gun i hold did as i was told
even though i know i got free will of my own
this is war it's so much more than you'll ever know
it's just the way that it goes
you want your big homes and white picket fences
then we better round up all the poor defenseless
little boys and girls
slaving on the whims and the sins
of the western side of the world

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from Ted Edited It EP, released June 24, 2012
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Rusty Things is a rock n' roll band combining elements of folk, punk, americana and beyond. Releasing music and ripping intense live shows since 2012, Rusty Things has new music on the way for 2022

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