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Paul's Time and Wm. James

from Luck by Worried Well

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There are many things that I never got to talk to Paul about.
Namely the war, his old cars. 

We never got to sit and drink a beer, not really.

Never had a chance to come together, ultimately.


But here and there we'd find a common thread.

"Is that how people do things now?" he'd said. 


The past, it wasn't like that. Not so simple or unkind. 

But men behaved like men and boys never cried. 

You did the work you had to do to get your family by. 

Growing old and aching all the time.



It's a tragedy; a god damned shame.
 
It could be worse you see, so don't place blame.

Under a gaslight, beside a frame lies the son of William James. 


A baker, a performer, a magician all the same.

An immigrant's son. A boy in a man's frame.


I never got to know you outside a picture frame.
But I bear your face, profession and your name. 
Mixing on a barrel in the basement in PA.
What did you “know” about the future?
Did you worry all day?



How did the streets look before there were so many cars?

How peaceful were the skies before there were planes?

You’d quote the grace of God and the catholic way,
The finer points of business.
You sang all day.

From the lawn in Bronxville, captured in super 8.

Did you know you’d raise, four children who'd shine as bright as flames?

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from Luck, released May 7, 2013

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Worried Well Portland, Maine

Daniel James and Cam Jones are a band called Worried Well.
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new album "Great Appetite, Poor Taste" available on vinyl and CD 7.24.15
Available digitally on Mint 400 Records on 9.7.15

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