Andrew Jacob Jung Poet Lyric

Barbed Wire Fence

'Cross the lot there was a golf course
Where the fancy people play 
You always wanted to get in there 
I wanted to get away

Can I get myself a witness
Should I get myself a wife 
When you and I were children
Were the best years of my life

That barbed wire sure looked dang'rous
And that fence was way too tall 
From where you and I were standin' 
Could've been the Berlin Wall

We would run around the grass field
Lord I never felt so free
You would always venture further 
And then come right back to me 

You said I've got to get ov'r it
And find a way you did 
I said I'll be right here waitin'
When you've had enough of it

You went off to college
And made some nice new friends
I stayed in Pike's Creek County
Inferring meaning from the ends

You came back to me as always
I saw in your gleamin' eye
A look of determination 
That made me want to cry 

Should I take a job in Charlotte
At that bank too big to fail
Or sleep another night off
In the Pike's Creek County Jail

I knew you'd roam for longer 
And I'd have to let you go
Down the roads this life would take me
Just one thing I truly know

Should I drive across the country
Do you think your husband'd mind
If I showed up on your doorstep
And you left that life behind

You'll be in my arms again
One day you will see 
That the ends they don't mean nuthin'
If there 'aint no You and Me

December 3, 2017

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