From Where I Came

Easy to let the world put you down

Easy to let the world steal your crown

Easy to let the world make you feel like a clown

Easy to be deceived by what’s beneath that silk gown,

You get knocked down and get up again

How do you keep doing it times ten?

Threw it all away for a little fox named Gwen

Who was the real fool then?

Another one took me on a ride

Thought I could let a few things slide

Didn’t see the signs thanks to my pride

That’s when my Bi-polar queen and I did collide,

Thought I could make it with my set of drums

Played with a few live bands when the evening comes

Groupies, players, and conundrums,

Stayed away from playing at bars in the slums,

Tried my hand at playing Mister Businessman

Wrestling matches with the corporate clans

The professional way to present your plans

Rug burns on my knees instead of my pants,

Wasn’t on what you would call a righteous path

Hell hath no fury as a woman’s wrath

Never found too much solace in a bubble bath

How many failed marriages? Just do the math,

Never intended for things to work out that way

You might say I’ve seen better days

Seems like life has become an amusing maze

Been smitten too many times by the abandonment craze,

I might be the last Dude you’d ever ask for advice

Dealt with indiscretions and vice

Wouldn’t you know it-I paid the price!

Would settle for just one girl trustworthy and nice,

But, life has a way of playing games

All those temptations of the flesh and fame

When it’s all over you’re never the same

Just trying to remember from where I came.