Everyone Choose Sides

[Verse 1]
Thirteen grand
A year in the Meadowlands
Bored and rural-poor, Lord, at 35, right?
I am the best seventeen-year-old ever

[Verse 2]
I've worked these sands
I won't go back again
Quitter, quitter, one boy bitter - rough luck
Man to man, hand to hand, fight forty

[Verse 3]
We're losing sand!
A Wrens' ditch battle plan
Record after record, Black and Decker-ed, tack, tack!
Definition: hell and high water

[Pre-Chorus]
Fatty come a courting, Lord, the money!

[Chorus]
Everyone choose sides
The whole to-do of what to do for money
Everyone choose sides
Poorer or not this year and hell's the difference
End of ropes and lines

Everyone choose sides

[Verse 4]
From a house damned
To divorce and back again
Split my off days and holidays and days done
With a card to Dad and calls to "Hi, Momma"

[Verse 5]
Let's talk plans
And luck said, "Double damned
Were you give the women worth winning or what?
A wasted share of shots at high-tide heaven"

[Pre-Chorus]
Greener grasses fade from where you wind up

[Chorus]
Everyone choose sides
I'm back! I'm back! So sing to raise the blind up
Everyone choose sides
I've walked away from more than you imagine
And I sleep just fine
We fought and brought up more
The shovel's high up on the ten-ton line

Everyone choose sides