Anthony D’Amato - Arrowhead lyrics
[Anthony D’Amato - Arrowhead lyrics]
I've got a pocket full of
Arrowheads to keep me safe
My granddaddy found them on the
Shores of White Lake
He says they're good luck so
I know that they're fake
Still I carry them with me
Each step that I take
See, my granddaddy worked from
The age of sixteen
Haulin' up copper from out of the deep
Till one night in the town
He collapsed on the street
And oh
How you wonder what you're gonna leave behind
You're too broke to fix
And you're too poor to die
It's all that you're born with and
It's all that you get
Well, the doctor said he just
About worked himself to death
His lungs was full of daggers
He was always out of breath
"If you want to stay alive, " they said
"you'd better stay in bed"
He fought the cancer with the whiskey
Till that killed him instead
So, my daddy left school to
Go lookin' for work
He moved back to the peninsula
To mine the dark earth
Took up with the waitress
She was colored like the dirt
Back of his took off the skirt
And oh
How you wonder what you're gonna leave behind
You're too broke to fix
And you're too poor to die
It's all that you're born with and
It's all that you get
One night Mamma mixed wine
And cheap sleepin' pills
Daddy found her in the mornin'
Lyin' perfectly still
Burial plot way up in the hills
Everyone says I'm a fortunate son
That I don't have to do like my daddy done
See, they found him with his lips
Around the barrel of a gun
A pocket full of arrowheads he
Kept for good luck
Oh, how I wonder what I'm gonna leave behind
I'm too broke to fix, and I'm too poor to die
It's all you're born with
It's all you're born with
It's all you're born with and all you get
It's all you're born with
It's all you're born with
It's all you're born with
And all, all that you get
Arrowheads to keep me safe
My granddaddy found them on the
Shores of White Lake
He says they're good luck so
I know that they're fake
Still I carry them with me
Each step that I take
See, my granddaddy worked from
The age of sixteen
Haulin' up copper from out of the deep
Till one night in the town
He collapsed on the street
And oh
How you wonder what you're gonna leave behind
You're too broke to fix
And you're too poor to die
It's all that you're born with and
It's all that you get
Well, the doctor said he just
About worked himself to death
His lungs was full of daggers
He was always out of breath
"If you want to stay alive, " they said
"you'd better stay in bed"
He fought the cancer with the whiskey
Till that killed him instead
So, my daddy left school to
Go lookin' for work
He moved back to the peninsula
To mine the dark earth
Took up with the waitress
She was colored like the dirt
Back of his took off the skirt
And oh
How you wonder what you're gonna leave behind
You're too broke to fix
And you're too poor to die
It's all that you're born with and
It's all that you get
One night Mamma mixed wine
And cheap sleepin' pills
Daddy found her in the mornin'
Lyin' perfectly still
Burial plot way up in the hills
Everyone says I'm a fortunate son
That I don't have to do like my daddy done
See, they found him with his lips
Around the barrel of a gun
A pocket full of arrowheads he
Kept for good luck
Oh, how I wonder what I'm gonna leave behind
I'm too broke to fix, and I'm too poor to die
It's all you're born with
It's all you're born with
It's all you're born with and all you get
It's all you're born with
It's all you're born with
It's all you're born with
And all, all that you get