John Mayer - Walt Graces Submarine Test January 1967

walt grace’s submarine test , january 1967 buck

john mayer

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walt grace , desperately hating his whole place
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dreamed to discover a new space
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and buried himself alive
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inside his basement , tongue on the side of his face meant
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he’s working away on displacement
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and what it would take to survive

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’cause when you’re done with this world
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you know the next is up to you
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and his wife told his kids he was crazy
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and his friends said he’d fail if he tried
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but with a will to work hard
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and a library card
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he took a homemade , fan – blade , one – man submarine ride

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that morning , the sea was mad and i mean it
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waves as big as he’d seen it
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deep in his dreams at home
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from dry land
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he rolled it over to wet sand
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closed the hatch up with one hand
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and peddled off alone

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’cause when you’re done with this world
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you know the next is up to you
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and for once in his life it was quiet
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as he learned how to turn in the tide
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and the sky was a flare
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when he came up for air
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in his homemade , fan – blade , one – man submarine ride

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one evening
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when weeks had passed since his leaving
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the call she’d planned on receiving
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finally made it home
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she accepted
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the news she’d never expected
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the operator connected
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a call from tokyo

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’cause when you’re done with this world
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you know the next is up to you
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now his friends
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bring him up when they’re drinking
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at the bar with his name on the side
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and they smile when they can
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as they speak of a man
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who took a homemade , fan – blade , one – man submarine ride