What You Can'T Break
You can take my house
you can take my truck
you can take my money
I don't give a f***
but you can't take
what you can't break
you can't touch my heart
or the memories, anniversaries,
birthdays, holidays, or talks in the dark
you can't touch my heart
you can take my pension
take your alimony
take all you can get
just leave me lonely
I'll always be free
something in me
you could never hold
a rambling, restless
wandering soul
so you got the best
I had to give
now all I wanna do
is live
we're still friends
until the end
we'll help our kids
raise our grand-kids
we'll toast the life
we had together
but we both know
it was time to go
let the eight ball roll
i'll be back again
I don't know when
birthdays, holidays, anniversaries
but until then
I'll be under the moon
gazing up at the stars
serenading the night
on an old guitar
free as a bird
with a song in my heart
the sun on my shoulder
one day dumber and one day older
with nothing but nothing
before me
and nothing but you
behind me
not gone, not forgotten
just far away as a balloon can fly
that's all I wanna be
'til the day I die
so take my house
take my truck
take my money
I don't give a f___
you can't take
what you can't break
you can't hold
this wandering soul
only the wind knows
where I'll go
I'm wild and free
like I want to be
don't care what it cost
for me to be lost
just gotta go
wherever I roam
like the buffalo
it's all my home
and in the end
I'd love you again
but I'm all air
and you're all ground
your love held me there
kept me far enough down
to have a family
raise five beautiful kids
and when they were gone
you did what you did
let go of your balloon on a string
watched it sail away
until you couldn't see
does it still love you
it always will
even as it disappears
over the hill
so take my house
take me truck
take my money
I don't give a f___
you could take
and you could break
all of me
I'd still be free
Copyright © Steven Young | Year Posted 2022
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