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fold or lose

from get up by Bill Stamey

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fold or lose

i've been thinking about everything you said,
and i believe every word is true
but, it's nothing i haven't heard a thousand times,
and it's nothing i'm gonna do

you see, people like me, we can't hold a job,
we can never pay our dues
people like me, we can't win,
we can only fold or lose

you left the keys to the place on a big silver ring
you know what I'm gonna do
take the change from the box in the pepsi machine
i ain't gonna push this broom

buy me a drink and cut outa town,
i'll forget i did this to you
i don't mean to blame, or pass a judgement,
but you shoulda' known what i was gonna do

there's a hole in my life that the liquor goes in,
nothing else seems to fill
i know wrong from right, i wanna be good,
but i just don't have the will

sometimes you wanna get out in the night
sometimes you wanna get high
sometimes you wanna get on with your life
and well, sometimes you wanna die

the nuns used to say i'd be a good boy someday
but that time musta came and went
the future's wide open, a road to go down,
and the money is already spent

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from get up, released April 9, 2022
Vocals and all instruments by Bill Stamey and the frogs on my road.

Words and music by Bill Stamey

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Bill is from Memphis, and playing there in rock, R&B, and blues bands brought him into contact with incredible people and places. His music is informed by those experiences and by anyone with soul and grit. Bill moved to Maine in 2007 and fronts the band Dooryarders. www.dooryarders.com ... more

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