All I Could Do

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I had a show a few weeks ago
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it's getting harder and harder to 
sing
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and it is hard to focus on my guitar
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playing when inside a baby is 
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kicking

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At first I was sad and scared
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cause this is all I know how to do
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then John and Peter played standing 
up
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sometimes something will change 
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and that change will change you.

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Then I thought back to six years ago
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when Brian Pilkton told me to play
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he gave me a car, a typewriter, a 
guitar
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before that all I could do was count
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 days.

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Then I thought back to before my 
coma
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rehab in Tacoma, my junkie roommates
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all that I knew how to do was put 
cigarettes
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out on my self, I took pills and 
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I drank.

C
And I thought back to when I was 15
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how I was squeaky clean, and I 
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wanted to die
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I was feeding the homeless while 
combating loneliness
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all that I could do was keep living 
a lie.

C
Then I think back to that 12 year 
old poet
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how she didn't know it was what she 
would be
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all she could do was hide under her 
bed
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scared to death that somebody 
  G           C
might read her diary

C
See I have changed and I'll keep on 
changing
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and maybe my songwriting will suffer
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but its okay if at the end of the 
day
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all i can do next is just be a 
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good mother
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its okay if at the end of the day
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all i can do next is be a good 
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mother.