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| chords THEY DON'T NEED TO UNDERSTAND I saw my old friend the other day He got a new job, he's getting paid Working hard from the morning light Coming home down and tired of life So we got some whiskey at the corner store Sat there drinking on his front porch He said man you're always good to make me laugh Why you sell yourself so serious? And I said I don't know Sometimes I'm not sure why we do anything at all But you gotta do a little for yourself And all of your hard luck, they may never see All of your dreams and all your victories All your explaining, they may never understand I got your letters and I read them well I'm just happy knowing I could help I don't know you but I know what you mean Yeah I could picture everything You were singing my songs in the dead of night In your mother's attic under moth filled lights In those teenage years when every feeling cuts Down to the marrow And you can't listen to them Even though it's the old cliches that wind up right in the end But you gotta figure all of that for yourself And all of your hard luck, they may never see All of your dreams and all your victories All your explaining, they may never understand So take all that feeling and put it in a song Sing it to me until it's all gone And maybe they don't need to understand There were times when I could take it slow There were times when I could take a joke There were times I could've fooled myself There were times I could've killed myself And it always seemed the things I got Were eclipsed by the things I'm not I got paid and I found success Is measured in happiness |