Age w/m: j.croce
Tuesday, 25. August 2009, 01:04:50
I've been up and down and 'round and 'round and back again. I've been so many places I can't remember where or when. And my only boss was the clock on the wall, and my only friend never really was a friend at all.
I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less. Lost my ideals in that long tunnel of time. I've turned inside out and around about and back and then found myself right back where I started again.
Once I had myself a million, now I' ve only got a dime, the diff'rence don't seem quite as bad today. With a nickel or a million, I was searching all the time For something that I never lost or left behind.
~instrumental verse~
Now I'm in my second circle and I'm headin' for the top I've learned a lot of things along the way. I'll be careful while I'm climbin' ' cause it hurts a lot to drop, and when your down nobody gives a damn anyway.
I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less. Lost my ideals in that long tunnel of time. I've turned inside out and around about and back and then found myself right back where I started again.
I've looked everywhere online for the first version of this song, with his wife singing harmony,off the album, "Another Day, Another Town", but I've not been successful to date.
He had another version of it on his last album, ''I Got A Name'' This song hit me like a ton of bricks at 17 and still affects me today at 51. (Some of you may know that yesterday was my 51st. birthday
) "What a long, strange trip it's been..." 
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