If i'm lucky enough

I'll see fogs lift with suns as we roll to play a show

In carolina, oklahoma or chicago

I'll grow to know the road to home in places far away

Wrinkled, bald and beat to shit, to never waste a day

Enough people will hate me that i know i did it right

But to never meet a human to say that i don't like

Let me learn the hard way and cut it close some times

That use the attic chest where every lesson lies

I'll have some kids and teach them that we are all the same

Sufferin', smilin', silhouettes of every passin' day

And the love i have

Will always be something my friends yearn

That memories were never cheap and never easy earned

I hope to choke on jack and coke

In a bar during a northern winter

On a night the man was tight and right

As rooftop lights flicker

If i'm lucky enough ill understand losing someone close

Ill clench my teeth on new year's eve

And try to talk to ghosts

I'll stumble through a market on a summer day in june

Smell the salt and asphalt on sunday afternoon

I reckon i'd be lucky if i made it half as far

To only die as on hills that are closest to my heart

If i'm lucky enough notebooks will be strewn across my room

I'll play catch on green grass when springtime flowers bloom

If i'm lucky enough i'll tell the truth every chance i get

‘cuz smiles faked to appease another is worth ten regrets

If i'm lucky enough i will get through hard things

And they will make me gentle to the ways of the world

If i'm lucky enough i'll have the courage to leave and go

Wherever my beatin' heart tells me to go

If i'm lucky enough i'll get high

And invite a guitar player over

And he'll play sweet notes

Until a new york city's rooftop sunrises

I'll meet some kids in school

That still know how to play instruments

If i'm lucky enough i won't make it exactly

To where i'm taking this breath now

Lay my head upon the earth and laugh at passing clouds

If i'm lucky enough

I'll remember the shaky things we've seen

Grab your beard through tears and fears

The great american bar scene