Every Goodbye

(Jim Armenti)

I've been called every bad name, some I can't name

By judges and lawyers and folks I never met

But my mother she called me Walker Jermaine

She said go out boy and make your own way

So I tried making boxes out in Nashua

Yeah I tried laying traps up in Bar Harbor bay

But none of it held me and I got way

Yeah I got away good, just as gone as I could

CHORUS

Every shuteye ain't sleep

I know it's so

Restless I ride in the linen

Every goodbye ain't gone

I know it's true

I'm counting out days, leaving only a few

I know it's not right to take what's not mine

I'm sure it's not right, I know stealing's a crime

But I know what it's like to see a life going down

Like gravel in a grave, one grain at a time

(CHORUS)

Well I been here so long I got stones for old friends

And I tell 'em my secrets and that's where it ends

The woman who named me, she's in the ground

But her Walker Jermaine just cannot be found