MECHANICS & BARSTOOLS (2021)

Mechanics and barstools are the things that I’ve seen

I’ve been ocean to ocean and places between

But it ain’t just a party, when you’re chasing the dream

So mechanics and barstools are the things that I’ve seen

Snow chains and growing pains I’ve dealt with them both

Driven all night with an engine light to pass out on the coast

Hit every shitty bar inside of every major city

Sacrificed a decade to a Chevrolet 350

Buried friends and witnessed brothers lose relationships to hate

I’ve seen bands that should be famous become casualties of fate

While self entitled rich kids bought their way into the scene

It’s fucked up and it ain’t fair but you can’t stop the machine

It's obscene and it ain’t right and I’ve seen weaker men tap out

Met the silver tongued demons that you hear stories about

Whispering my songs were shit but that they would make it fine

If I’d just follow their lead and sign upon the dotted line

Vans rolling in convoys, the quarantine cowboys

Riding again chasing stages to destroy

It’ll never be the same when the boys roll into town

And we ain’t apologizing when we burn the fucker down

Mechanics and barstools are the things that I’ve seen

I’ve been ocean to ocean and places between

But it ain’t just a party when you’re chasing the dream

So mechanics and barstools are the things that I’ve seen

(Joey Harkum)

Hurry up and wait, sound check's running late

Pack the van and burn the tab and drive eight hours straight

Every city on the tour, the people we adore

Screaming revolution in an ever present war

How the hell did this all get started

Now I can’t seem to depart it

Poison in my veins, pushing through the pain I sacrificed a normal life and now I got a name

But I know something you don’t know my friends

When you love the work, the work will never end

So you can count all your mistakes, you can unlearn every lesson

You can focus on the obstacle or focus on the lesson

Of a life out on the road, it's earned but never owed

Where the only thing for certain is there’s nothing set in stone

Mechanics and barstools are the things that I’ve seen

I’ve been ocean to ocean and places between

But it ain’t just a party when you’re chasing the dream

So mechanics and barstools are the things that I’ve seen

When the curtain falls and I’m dismissed

I'll ramble on through the abyss

Not knowing rest but do not weep

Certain souls weren’t meant for sleep