Boxcar Boy

from 17 Feet by Two Crows for Comfort

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I read about you in the local news
The votes are in, you got your big boy shoes
Heard you stole your daddy’s gun and dropped it when you’re on the run
I wish I could have seen it all go down
Heard you said your name aloud and lost it in an open crowd
Everyone is laughing now
Everyone is laughing now
I saw you on the 10 o’clock, heard you’re living in the lock
Bet your making your mama proud
A victim of the civil block, a simple soul and living lost
What’s there left to say to me now
A boxcar boy and a deadbeat dad
Your best friend died, you never had a chance
We’re all modest in our very minds
We’re all honest in our very crimes
We’re all laughing at a different time
We’re all crashing with a different kind
I read they let you out one day and wished that you enjoyed your stay
I wonder what it’s like up on your cloud
Heard you’re just the same old man and shaking with the devil’s hand
Everyone is laughing now
Everyone is laughing now
If mom and dad they even cared, I bet you’d be alive to share
The stories that you’d tell my kids now
I heard they put you in a box and filled it full of dirt and rocks
Everyone ain’t laughing now
I was biting my tongue and biding time
Never said goodbye before the flat lines
I read about you in the local news
The votes are in, you got your big boy shoes

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from 17 Feet, released December 8, 2018

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Two Crows for Comfort Winnipeg, Manitoba

Filled with rich harmonies, genuine, heart warming (and breaking) lyrics, Two Crows for Comfort spins stories into songs and songs into stories.

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