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Johnny Business

from The Night Was Never Young by Chad Pelley

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Johnny’s not a joking man, since ten he lived his father’s plan
of climbing up a ladder that won't end.
It doesn’t take him much to say, he cannot take another day
of watching that clock spin around.
Some nights he thinks of Sara Lee, her beauty dropped him to a knee
she said, you’re not the marrying kind.
She counted ways he let her down, she never said it with a frown
as she turned and walked herself away.

You build it up and knock it down,
you turn around and around again,
You see it clear and look away,
You line it up and shoot it down down again, again, again.

College was a Godamn bore, he studied hard and studied more
met a girl and let her get away.
He took a job that took his soul, and punching in will punch him out
His heart, fills his head with doubt.
Now Mary’s walking down the hall, she’s looking more than ten feet tall
you better untie your tongue.
There’s nothing that you shouldn’t say, ‘cause money’s not the only way
to buy, the things that you want.

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from The Night Was Never Young, released March 1, 2014

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Chad Pelley St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Chad Pelley is an author who'd rather write songs than stories.

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