Name: Just a Boy
Duration: P00H02M58S
Description: wrote this one for all the maine backwoods hunyucks i grew up with (hunyuck: that's a few steps below white trash), especially the ones who knew how to play a mean guitar but never did much with the whole music thing.

Just a Boy

from Shining from Shook Foil by Stover

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wrote this one for all the maine backwoods hunyucks i grew up with (hunyuck: that's a few steps below white trash), especially the ones who knew how to play a mean guitar but never did much with the whole music thing.

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there's a gas can in the kitchen
next to a pot of flowers
and a gramophone in the basement
buried under some moldy towels

and the cupboards in the pantry
are patched with wood from a ukulele
that my grandpa gave me when he was just a boy

oh there's not much food on the table
since my father's plow truck broke down
and the hydro shut off the electric
so my friends, they never come 'round

and there's a guitar neck sticking out of the stove
the trombone case is the next to go
that my father carried when he was just a boy

well the neighbors were watching TV
as i doused the house with gas
and my brother was kissing his first date
when i first struck that match

and as i watched our house turn into flames
i knew our life wouldn't be the same
when they asked why i did it, i said, 'i am just a boy'

well my father saw the fire
as he pissed beside the church house
and he knew my mom was alright
that she was gossiping on her friends couch

oh, a tear fell down his dirty cheek
it was neither sad nor bitter sweet
as he wished that once again
he was just a boy

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from Shining from Shook Foil, released May 10, 2009
Justin Stover: lyrics, guitar, vocal
Dustin Anderson: drums, auxiliary percussion

Written by Justin Stover

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