Name: Time Off
Duration: P00H03M56S
Description: Notes: I had a riff that I emailed to Marc in Montana, and about an hour later he sent me some lyric. I added some additional lyric and it just sort of came together real quick, like we used to do back in college. Recorded straight up. Marc says I nailed it.

Time Off

from Bed Bones and Bare Blues by Michael Garner

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Notes: I had a riff that I emailed to Marc in Montana, and about an hour later he sent me some lyric. I added some additional lyric and it just sort of came together real quick, like we used to do back in college. Recorded straight up. Marc says I nailed it.

lyrics

Working for the man, minimum pay
I’d like to quit, but I can’t get away
Got me a wife and bills to pay
3 hungry childs and another on way

My truck won’t start and my dog won’t hunt
Boss man said if you pull another stunt
you can pack your bags and be on your way
lots of time to play your guitar all day

I been working all day long
ain’t nobody here gonna sing my song
sweat keep rollin’ off my back
working all day on the railroad track
playing my guitar in the railroad shack
tryin’ not to be just a broken down hack
Is that the sound of the train that coming back

Aint much money but there’s plenty of fear
dollar’s weak overseas and its weaker here
ain’t no jobs so I’m stayin put
one step ahead of the boss man’s foot

I been working all my life
I got nothing special for my pretty wife
sweat keeps rollin’ off my back
working all day on the railroad track
Playing my guitar in the railroad shack
tryin not to be just a broken down hack
Is that the sound of the train coming back

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from Bed Bones and Bare Blues, released December 9, 2014
Words and Music, Marc Mattix and Michael Garner
Vocal and guitar, Michael Garner

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