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Song for my brother...and a family.

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Two
Garrick Rawlings ©2002

I was the first born son
Of a first born son
My room painted baby blue
In four years time, spring of ‘69
Along came number two

Baseball we’d play
Out in those fields all day
Everything so green and bright
It was our little town, with kids all around
Suppertime’s at six tonight

Someday I’m gonna be like him
Someday he’s gonna call my name
I want to do what he does, I just want to feel the same
Oh aye oh aye oh
It ain’t easy comin’ through, when you’re always number two

Well the folks split up
Mom had had enough
Dad, he didn’t know what to say
You were stuck at home, you were so alone And I just kept runnin’ away

Now I don’t know why
Little kid jealousy or spite
But I didn’t treat you very good
And it kills me to say, I sold you out that day In front of the kids in the neighborhood

It was sin after sin
You just couldn’t win
After a while you didn’t even care You spent time in jail, after I set sail Like they say life just ain’t fair

In the wide open spaces
I’ve seen so many places
Today I just wish you were here
No sad refrains, but I’ll call out your name It’s time to share a couple bottles of beer

It ain’t easy comin’ through without you number two

After so many years
Loneliness and tears
I was thinkin’ how it was before How long has it been, the four of us then? Hell it don’t seem real no more

The thought came to me
We’re the legacy
How I miss blood on blood
Like sunny days and bad weather
Old folks don’t last forever
We’re bound to learn how to love

Won’t be easy comin’ through
When it’s only me and you

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from Million Miles, released July 4, 2003
Garrick Rawlings - guitar & vocal

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Americana artist born in Wichita KS, raised in Sturgis, MI, left for Kalamazoo, on to Chicago, SoCal, Prescott, AZ and again LA.. A GR show is best described as Neil Young & Johnny Cash meet the MC5 riding horseback through the desert chasing Woody, Ramblin' Jack, Townes Van Zandt, Led Zeppelin, Tom Russell, John Prine, Guy Clark and a mariachi band at some obscure and magnificent raging campfire. ... more

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