off their own label
there just isn’t time
to get it all done
as I sit here, smoking
soot from the pipe
with a mug of too-strong
coffee, making
music
the band is off-key
my notes are off the beat
my mouth was too close to the
microphone, and nobody
took our picture
some other band sold
650,000 copies of
their first album
off their own
label
it would take me a lifetime to produce
that many of my own books, let alone
just that many of the first one
but what do I care? I’m doing it
and I’m working my ass off
and failing
it can’t get any better
it just can’t get any better
there just isn’t enough time
to call this one a practice and then
do it better again
I can’t do that, this is all I’ve got
I have a wife and a growing family
I’ve got to scrub the mold outta the bathroom, and
replace some tile in the kitchen, and shit first the dishes
feed the kids and take out the garbage, man
I’ve got other things, and not enough time, not enough
time to sing on Wild Horses; we are the wild horses
and there’s not enough time for perfection with us,
all I can do is show you my way
and keep moving
and that’s what I’m gonna do now,
I can see the coffee’s cold, and
I sense the coming of the late afternoon train,
I better finish this pipe and shake on with this
hunger, it doesn’t get any better than this, there’s
not time, no time, not enough time to get any
better
so carry on, work on my friends, and love it
because this is the life, and there’s such
little time to
live it
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