Thirty Reasons

from The Entertainers by Polka Dogs

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Recorded live at Earl Bales Park 1990

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Thirty Reasons Lyrics

Life is full of pain.
Such hopelessness.
No matter what you try
To make come to life

It’s a bitter trail to follow
One foot behind the other
Stand up and talk to your father

Fathers listen close
And give your son some time alone
Listen to the anger storm
Bring it back home.

Facing up to fury
Facing signs of exhaustion
It’s a cowboy in a can
It’s a boy alone.

Chorus:
What does it mean
When you gotta go to work?
What does it mean
When you gotta work hard?

What does it mean
When it doesn’t mean a thing
Doesn’t mean a thing
Doesn’t mean a thing
Go! Go! Go! Go!


I can think of thirty reasons
Why I’m where I am today
All the things I didn’t do
And all the things I did.

I don’t have a lot of regrets
Because I’m still too young to
Say “I’ll never get to do this or that.”

I’ll never be an American
I’ll never be a mother
I’ll never take my vacations
In Hawaii.
I am too smart to do that

Chorus

Somewhere in the back of
All this hand to hand
I’m grinding on a big knife
Living out my days as catch can

Against the backdrop
Of a well known museum
Crying “Where are my muscles?!
“Where are my muscles?!”

Someone told me
How to live my only life in peace.
Someone else just told me how to
Live it better.

Someone tells me
“Every thing is wrong!”
Maybe they are right
Maybe I’m the only man alive tonight

Chorus

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from The Entertainers, released January 6, 2016
Composed by John Millard
Accordion Tiina Kiik
Trombone Tom Walsh
Drums Ambrose Pottie
Tuba Colin Couch
Banjo and Vocals John Millard

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