Has Been

I’m a fraud, I pretend

I ain’t chasing glory

Just a lonely wanderer

Trying to tell a simple story

You can feel free

To cry or laugh

At the kid with the carefully

Practiced autograph

So, I’ll be the has been who never was

Hold my breath and I’ll jump from this boxcar because

It circles the mountain and never starts to climb

I’ll leave my pennies on the railroad track

I’ll jump from this train, you know, I won’t look back

Leave this jumble of words for someone else to rhyme

I say that every time

I’ll take a seat right at the bar

That I’m too young to fill

I’ll sit and think, sip on the drink

That I never seem to kill

Because the fella that’s pouring ‘em

Yeah, he knows the deal

I’m always one drink shy

Of how I want to feel

So, I’ll be the has been who never was

Hold my breath and I’ll jump from this boxcar because

It circles the mountain and never starts to climb

I’ll leave my pennies on the railroad track

I’ll jump from this train, you know, I won’t look back

Leave this jumble of words for someone else to rhyme

I say that every time

And it just gets to me

You get what I mean?

That the best of me is still unseen

That the best of me is still unseen