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Song For Bob

from Expatriates by Tyler Lyle

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"Song for Bob" was written as a tongue and cheek reference to Dylan's "Song for Woody" while I was half drunk with $12 in my bank account on the most expensive street on the west side of LA the night before I was to meet and play my guitar for the North American head of the second biggest music company in the world (at the time).

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Too much whiskey and you can't find the truth
Too little and the outcome's the same
I'm on Abbot Kinney, a quarter to nine
Three drinks in my head and this song on my mind

I got nothing, nothing and no one
The pretty people just running in place
Tell me, is a song worth a damn thing
Nothing won't be worth nothing one day

I got a meeting tomorrow with a man and a pen
see if he can't get these songs of my hands
and give me some money for all of these tears

I got nothing, nothing and no one
and I just keep running away
Tell me, is a song worth a damn thing
Nothing won't be worth nothing one day

Hey hey there Bob Dylan, I wrote you a song
About a world that ain't never been born
Like a curse in my mouth and a cure on my tongue
It comes from my guts and it pulls out my lungs

I got nothing, nothing and no one
The pretty people just running in place
Tell me, is a song worth a damn thing
Nothing won't be worth nothing one day

Nothing ain't worth nothin' I say

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from Expatriates, released March 14, 2013

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