Bill Callahan

Tugboats And Tumbleweeds

Bill Callahan


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[Verse]
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Some time alone when you are young is good
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High, high time, and drunk old time, sober time
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I advise all three when your brain is at least twenty-three
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 Take a tumbleweed year or two
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And find an eye that's true
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 But don't let yourself get so blue
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That you make rash decisions for two
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Else you'll harm yourself and another
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Who mistook you for a guide
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When you're still a rogue tide


Fools learn from fools
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The wise learn from the wise
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And always be prepared to revise

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And when you get older, find a quiet time
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 To ride on ahead or fall behind
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And take a good look inside your mind
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Morning can be godmotherly
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To stretch, walk, and wander through
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Or the wee small hours when the whole world is asleep, but you
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  Afternoons are okay too
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 To take an ocean view
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 And always look for the tugboats

Already attached to you
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And you, you're a tugboat too
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Yeah, you, you're a tugboat too

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 You're my tugboat
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 You're my tugboat
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 You're my tugboat