Satisfied Man - Stephen Kellogg

There’s somethings you never get over

Whatever your parents say

First on my list of these three things

Is the sight of my father walking away

Next on my list would be heaven

I already know what it’s like

Cause I fell in love when I was 16 with the absolute love of my life

Last on my list would be losing

But someone always needs to win

And thumbing your nose at the boss I suppose just feels like a beautiful thing

And it’s something that nobody tells you

You figure it out if you can

Well there’s one thing on earth that no one can touch

It’s the sleep of a satisfied man

Yeah the sleep of a satisfied man

And I don’t know why I love believing

But it’s not from lack of loving you

You can’t remember when you stopped breathing and I can’t remember it too

But I’m coming home tomorrow

And I wanted you to know

That the part of me that can make you smile is the same part that needed to go

And it’s something that nobody tells you

You figure it out if you can

Well they can’t interfer or get inside of here

To the sleep of a satisfied man

Yeah the sleep of a satisfied man

Of all the things I’ve had to learn

One won’t quit

No matter how I try

One won’t quit

It’s all that I can stand

One won’t won’t quit

I’ll never learn to say goodbye

But I hope for your sake that you can

And on April 2nd the birth of my heart

The day that the zombie awoke with a start

When I fell for Button and she fell for me

Back in the spring of 1993

January 7th 2005 the birth of my blood came fully to life

When I see St. Peter and ask for my wings

Just leave me that memory and the joy that it brings

It’s something that nobody tells you

You figure it out if you can

It’s the things that you never get over

Build the character of a man

And if heaven and family and children

Are what’s left of me when I die

Then I hope for your sake that you’re better than me at this learning to say

goodbye

Yeah if heaven and family and children

Are what’s left of the race that I ran

Then I’ll quietly slip to the slumbering peace of the

sleep of a satisfied man

Yeah the sleep of a satisfied man

Yeah the sleep of a satisfied man

I’m satisfied