. . . April 8th . . .
Fifteen minutes of glory, maybe less
What I wouldn't give for the
chance to confess
All my intimate secrets
All my hopes and my desires
I don't care just how valid you think that they are
They've been mine
for a long long while
And I'm not ashamed of them
Shut up Joe
How
do you really know what's going down
How can you tell if there's a
problem somewhere to be found
We all need to gather round
To help
everybody else to see
That running your mouth aloud
Makes it that much
more difficult
For you and me and our integrity
Went
to work at the factory at fourteen
Thought I'd finish my schooling
sometime in between
Drunken weekends and futile street fights
And the
visits to my best girl
But the time slipped away
I've got bills here
to pay
I've got small ones depending on me
My vision is limited
Shut up Joe
How
do you really know what's going down
How can you tell if there's a
problem somewhere to be found
We all need to gather round
To help
everybody else to see
That running your mouth aloud
Makes it that much
more difficult
For you and me and our integrity
All my life I've known I'd want to say
Something to my fellow man today
Couldn't let the facts get in the way
We
weren't that well acquainted never were
An occasional run-in we
preferred
There's one thing that we both believe in
Heard it over
and over again
It was something about all the fondness we felt
How
the heart can't miss what's not around
If the mind doesn't value it
Shut up Joe
How
do you really know what's going down
How can you tell if there's a
problem somewhere to be found
We all need to gather round
To help
everybody else to see
That running your mouth aloud
Makes it that much
more difficult
For you and me and our integrity
Integrity
©2013 Raymond M. Jozwiak
(Instrumental Version) from '2014'
available April 8, 2014 at
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