Glory Days - Justin Townes Earle

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I had a friend was a big baseball player

Back in high school

He could throw that speedball by you

Make you look like a fool, boy

Saw him the other night at this roadside bar

I was walking in, he was walking out

We went back inside, sat down, had a few drinks

But all he kept talking about was

Glory days, well they'll pass you by

Glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye

Glory days, glory days

Well, there's a girl that lives up the block

Back in school, she could turn all the boys' heads

Sometimes on a Friday, I'll stop by and have a few drinks

After she put her kids to bed

Her and her husband, Bobby, well they split up

I guess it's two years gone by now

We just sit around talking about the old times

She says when she feels like crying

She starts laughing, thinking 'bout

Glory days, well they'll pass you by

Glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye

Glory days, glory days

My old man worked twenty years on the line

And they let him go

Now everywhere he goes out looking for work

They just tell him that he's too old

I was nine-years old and he was working

At the Metuchen Ford plant assembly line

Now he just sits on a stool down at the Legion Hall

But I can tell what's on his mind

Glory days, yeah goin back

Glory days, aw he ain't never had

Glory days, glory days

I think I'm going down to the well tonight

I'm gonna drink till I get my fill

And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it

But I probably will

Yeah, just sitting back, trying to recapture

A little of the glory, yeah

Well time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister

But boring stories of

Glory days, well they'll pass you by

Glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye

Glory days, glory days