Don't Drag Your Coffin Around

from Live at Volcanic Theatre by Johnny Bourbon

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Written and Performed by Johnny Bourbon

This track was written just a few days before the show, and this take is the VERY first time I had ever played this song in front of an audience

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'Times I wake with a heart so heavy,
Can't remember why I do this,
Make a dollar, earn a living,
Take a gamble, pull the trigger,

But I missed the target, Lost my footing,
Fell so hard I got tired of trying ,
Hit a wall and so I went out drinking
And woke to find that my youth had abandoned me.

Lonely places this life will take ya,
Blink your eyes and it's halfway over
Climb the mountain, to drag the river,
Suffer the valleys and try to be grateful,

Cause we all know that someday, time will take us
Wild horses, in a world made to break us,
So make the most if it, like isn't fair but,
We're lucky just to be Free.

Old age will bring you a heart full of misery,
Praise every beautiful thing in your memory,
A dream in the field with a head full of whiskey
A time when your mind wasn't so full of worry,

A day in the Cain, when the lovers were pretty,
We didn't have so many scars on our bodies,
But a hunger for greatness and a fire in our bellies,
Cause one day the fire grows weak.

But don't drag your coffin around,
Don't drag your coffin around...

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from Live at Volcanic Theatre, released December 4, 2021

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Johnny Bourbon Bend, Oregon

Johnny Bourbon is a lifelong poet and musician who honed his skills writing & performing in various alt-country and punk rock bands from the age of 17.

Mostly throughout the greater pacific northwest area.

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