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The
World's Oldest Boy*
It's Not
Looking Good*
Little Rabbit
Enjoy
The Ride*
Trillionaires
This Island Life*
Canto Del Gato*
Junior
Bandango*
Till The Sun Comes Out
Some God Forgives*
The Minister Of Shadows
Visions
Of Dulcinea*
Folks my age have usually got it
made
Life for me has been an uphill grade
Never drew that ace, never won
that race
Now momentum's got the best of me
My brakes are shot and my
tank's on E
Every fling's been flung, hell, I can't die young
I'm rolling
downhill with a tail wind
It's almost laughable the shape I'm in
But forget
my pride and enjoy the ride
I spiral downward in a tailspin
My face still
plastered with that foolish grin
Overshot my prime but makin' damn good
time
I had a friend who suffered many a
fall
I asked if he'd learned anything at all
He said, "I close my eyes and
just enjoy the ride"
Now that old friend, he never falls no more
Since
he stumbled through that final door
He's found lots of grace in a better
place
I'm rolling
downhill with a tail wind
It's almost laughable the shape I'm in
But forget
my pride and enjoy the ride
I spiral downward in a tailspin
My face still
plastered with that foolish grin
Overshot my prime but makin' damn good
time
Freewheeling
downhill with a tail wind
It's almost laughable the shape I'm in
But forget
my pride and enjoy the ride
I spiral downward in a tailspin
My face still
plastered with that foolish grin
Overshot my prime but makin' damn good
time
The title cut of the album was the first song written, nearly a decade before the last. It's the only song for which I've written the words and melody without an instrument, instead singing it a capella for the bears in Glacier National Park. The "friend" referred to was Warren Murray, who had cerebral palsey and fell down a lot. His answer to what it was like to take a tumble so often is the basis for the song. While most of the tracks are the ones I recorded in 2004, I recently updated the percussion and vocal tracks.