Retirement Plans

Intro
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Verse 1
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Well I went up north, and I got real sick.
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Then I got back home, and I got sick again.
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I had some time for thinking laying there in bed:
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If I'm waiting for the right conditions, I'm waiting to be dead.

Interlude
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Verse 2
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My dad can't retire, and my mom can't too.
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They raised us on the discount groceries and the thrift store shoes.
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I don't mean that it was hard times. Nah, we had it good.
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I just mean they saved their money. What did it all go to?

Interlude
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Verse 3
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I was working writing software. Man, I love that shit.
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Ruby on Rails in the backend...I know it ain't hip.
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We wrote code for social workers, and I liked what we did.
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Not gonna fix a broken system, but I don't know what is.

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Verse 4
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But then I started hurting, some days too much to move.
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I wasn't built for all this typing, but what's one more thing to lose?
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Used to love to be a smoker, and I could slam that booze,
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but sometimes the things you love...well, they just don't love you.

Interlude
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Verse 5
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Used to think we'd set the world on fire, find freedom in the glow.
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Now I'm ready for a quiet life, but the world's looking pretty flammable,
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and a man that I look up to picked up a gun when his time came due.
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I think he'd say: “Don't go looking for war, but sometimes war comes looking for you.”

Verse 6
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So I went up to see him, and I got real sick.
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Then I got back home, and I got sick again.
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I had some time for thinking laying there in bed:
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If I'm waiting for the right conditions, I'm waiting to be dead

Outro
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(repeat as long as your lead guitarist wants to solo)