Pocket Watch

from A Few Regrets by CodettaSouth

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All music played/recorded/produced/mixed by Brennan White
Mastered at Sage Audio

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They all told me he was far too impatient
He always needs his hands on the reins
Cause he's too scared to be thrust out in the open,
what a waste of space

If he ever makes it out to San Francisco
He'd kill himself to find out what is wrong
Cause there's no city that can take away your problems
It takes more than a place to move on

But I don't assume that he'll stay for very long
He doesn't know what it takes to change,
he is half the man he thinks that he's become

He took that dream as he pulled it from the ashes
He polished it and held it to the sun
It was the pocket watch engraved from his father
that he got when he turned twenty one
and written in those golden letters, it read,
"Son, you get to choose who you become"

But I don't assume that he knows how life could be
If he won't learn to follow through, he'll be half the man
he could be
Half the man that he should be

Now ambition takes the place of contentment
A dream is more important than the pain
Like every kid who doesn't wait for the sunshine
and rides their bike in the pouring rain
like every girl that he met was the problem,
when he's the only one he has to blame

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from A Few Regrets, released November 11, 2016

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Tenne-ssippian writing and recording music in Columbia, TN.

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