You know I've been writing songs and singing them for nigh on 30 years
I like it
I love it!
It started out as a way for me to communicate with other people and myself and the spirits
I don't want to say that it saved my life but it gave me a life
So I took my show on the road and I made some good friends that I still have today
And I talked to the girls that smiled at me
But in the end I realized it's probably best just to let them be
I remember one girl in East Tennessee
Where girls in songs always seem to be
She said You should spend the night
Looking for a hotel
It's important to not treat your lifeboat into a yacht
As time wore on I found myself increasingly turning to my guitar instead of other people in times of loneliness and sorrow and confusion
Which is the exact opposite reason of why I got into this in the first place
I started to wonder: is this creativity or pathology?
Am I the Pathol O.G.?
Always one foot on the ladder to heaven
Jacob's Ladder!
Jacob's Ladder!
Never seemed so tall
Sometimes I wonder: does it ever stop growing at all?
Friend would call, say, "Let's get together at seven."
I'd say, "Sorry, pal. I got one foot on the ladder to heaven!"
Jacob's Ladder!
Jacob's Ladder!
Never seemed so tall
Sometimes I wonder: does it ever stop growing at all?
It's important to not treat your lifeboat like a yacht
It's important to not turn your lifeboat into a yacht
Sometimes you've got to just get off and walk
You got to lay that ladder down, boy
Lay that ladder down boy
And get across
Lay that ladder down boy and get a cross
Well bye
