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Five Years

from Give Me That Hammer by Ben Wilson

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lyrics

I see five Years on one piece of paper,
I see my blood sweat and tears
in a type face,
Well you can sum me up
in a sentence,
Cooked me up and serve me for dinner.

I got patches on my fingers
from spoiling
All the ideas in my head are falling
Muscles getting worn away,
Children going out to play
While the milk's on the warmer boiling.

Well, I'm moving on,
I'm loading my gun,
I'm slowly moving faster now which
Proves it to me further now,
I got Five Years on one piece of paper.

Like lumberjacks harvesting timber,
Engineers harnessing steam,
Been working on the farm so long,
But money doesn't grow it cons,
and sews the seeds for the servants.

Well, I'm moving on,
I'm singing along,
Don't know the words don't,
Know the song,
or a single little things I've done,
'Cept Five Years on one piece of paper.

And I stare into the ground,
It's wet, and no where bound,
I loose a toy thrown in the air,
And put a penny in the jar for swears,
Now tell me, that we're even.






Now standing on the shoulders of giants,
Climbing on the barricades of corpses,
They all knew these things from birth,
But they carried on to,
Sweat their worth,
'Cause in Five Years,
You can make it.

Well I know yous who have made it,
You stick up a thumb,
Grab it and take it.
Knowingly, respectfully,
It's a fate I know eternally its,
Five Years on one piece of paper.

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from Give Me That Hammer, released May 18, 2018

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Ben Wilson Lismore, Australia

Ben Wilson takes the intimacy of folk and fuses it with a love of all things vintage and rock ‘n’ roll. Nostalgic, pensive, minimalist, a quest for authenticity, with songwriting always at it’s core.

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