"if i'm lucky enough, i'll see fogs lift with suns as we roll to play a show in carolina, oklahoma, or chicago. i'll grow to know the road to home in places far away, wrinkled, bald, and beat to shit to never waste a day. enough people will hate me that i know i did it right, but to never meet a human being that i say that i don't like. let me learn the hard way and cut it close sometimes, that youth is the attic chest where every lesson lies. i'll have some kids and teach them that we are all the same, suffering then smiling silhouettes of every passing day. the love i have will always be something that my friends yearn, my memories were never cheap and never easy earned. i hope to choke on jack and coke in a bar during northern winter on a night the band was tight and right as rooftop lights flicker.
if i'm lucky enough, i'll understand losing someone close, i'll clench my teeth on new years eve and try to talk to ghosts. i'll stumble through a market on a sunday in june, smell the salt and asphalt on a sunday afternoon. i reckon i'd be lucky if i made it half as far, to only die on hills that are closest to my heart.
if i'm lucky enough, notebooks will be strewn across my room, i'll play catch on green grass where springtime flowers bloom.
if i'm lucky enough, i'll tell the truth every chance i get because smiles fake to appeasing others is worth ten regrets.
if i'm lucky enough, i'll get through hard things and they will make me gentle to the ways of the world.
if i'm lucky enough, i'll have the courage to leave and go wherever my beating heart tells me to go.
if i'm lucky enough, i'll get high and invite a guitar player over and he'll play sweet notes until the new york city rooftop sun rises. i'll meet some kids at school that still know how to play instruments.
if i'm lucky enough, i'll make it exactly to where i'm taking this breath now, lay my head upon the earth and laughing at passing clouds.
if i'm lucky enough, i'll remember the shaky things we've seen. grab your beer through tears and fears, the great american bar scene."
