Things ain’t like they used to be
Words and music by Doug Tolleson ©1998
Verse 1
Coffee breath and whiskey eyes, old coat of another man’s size
He sat down beside me on the curb
Asked if he could bum a light, wondered if it’d rain tonight
And did I know where a man might find some work
Verse 2
He’d rode the boom, till it bust, I was down and out of luck,
It must have been written on my face (Cause he said that…)
Boy you think you’ve had it rough, you’re giving thought to giving up
Well the surest way to lose is not to race
Chorus
So we talked the afternoon away on politics and life,
Dallas in the glory days, what if John Wayne hadn’t died
We reached the same conclusion, this old man and me
Things ain’t like they used to be, things ain’t like they used to be
Bridge
Time takes it’s own sweet time and goes where it will
The only ones it leaves behind are those who would stand still (He used to say that…)
Verse 3
Life’s too short to live this long, so one day he just moved on
So I stop by and see him now and then
Home, kids, a loving wife, somehow I got it right
And you know that I owe a lot to him
Repeat Chorus
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Coffee breath and whiskey eyes, old coat of another man’s size
He sat down beside me on the curb