Artist in My Prime

from Suck on This! EP by Clay Rose

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Since I sat down on this curb I’ve sung every song I know.
I don’t know how long it took me, but I know it’s far past time to go
‘Cuz I’ve seen a million people pass and not one of them dropped a dime.
Well, that’s what you get when you’re an artist in your prime.

Halifax ain’t bad, I guess, but it ain’t no better than all the rest.
The American dream, it seems, has come here, too.
A panhandlin’ kid kicked me off his block
for infringing on his profits, or so he thought.
I guess capitalists don’t even want to share the blues.

(Chorus)
Last night I slept out in the rain
and lately I can’t tell freedom from a ball and chain.
So this mornin’ I got down on my knees
and asked god for some kind of a sign,
He said to me, “You’re where you’re meant to be,
an Artist in your prime.”

Vincent Van Gogh was flat broke the day he laid down and died,
but since then a lot of business men have gotten rich off of his designs.
So if you’re a songwriter dreamin’ of cash, well you best dream of songs instead,
‘cuz in this day and age, for an artist to make a living, he’s gotta be dead.

I was in Cambridge last week playin’ at an open mic.
There was at least ten guys there over fifty
who had been doin’ it thier whole damn lives.
I said, “Hell, boys, how do ya pay the bills?”
They said, “We never have and probably never will.
What did ya think, that you were bound to get rich in time?
No, you’re an artist in your prime!”

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from Suck on This! EP, released March 17, 2008

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