Ashamed

from The Trees Are Coming by David Breslin

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Well, I’m all messed up and nowhere to go
Got my nose pressed up to the window glow
Where the normal people got their normal lives on show.
I could get dress up in some rags of woe
I could drift chest-up in the black river’s flow
But that’s going nowhere and going kinda slow.
I am what I am what I am
Maybe tomorrow there’ll be jam
I’ll be damned if you
Can make me feel
Ashamed.

Well, the nice don’t win ‘cos to win ain’t nice
But I’ll keep my grin, though you fooled me twice
I could be like you but it just ain’t worth the price.
There’s a strength you hold when you’re meek as mice
When you’re flat and cold as a sole on ice
When you’re small and you crawl through the holes in the strange device
I am what I am what I am
Maybe tomorrow there’ll be jam
I’ll be damned if you
Can make me feel
Ashamed.

If I’m damned if I do and I’m damned if I don’t,
I’ll be damned if I give a damn when it won’t
Make a difference.
Let’s be blunt
You can save your sneers, I’m not keeping up a front.
You can call me crazy, you can call me dumb
But I live my life by one rule of thumb
While the good times go
And the good times come:
Try to keep the harm I must do to a minimum.
I am what I am what I am what I am
Maybe tomorrow there’ll be bread and jam
I’ll be damned if you
Can make me feel
Ashamed.

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from The Trees Are Coming, released October 5, 2015

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