weather and traffic

from home recordings III by braden gates

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he broke both his arms falling off of a building he climbed
while higher than the american flag on the fourth of july
cleaned him self up, enough to know better
you can hear him today reading traffic and weather
on the radio waves

rides across town on two-wheeler built to go fast
knows the only way forward is learning to let go of the past
sometimes it's heavy, or light as a feather
i hear it in the way he reads traffic and weather
on the radio waves

you don't know what you've got til you don't have it
ain't nothing for sure but death and taxes, weather and traffic
i don't need much, don't do a lot of askin'
tryin' to wrap my brain around death and taxes, weather and traffic

cars go vroom and thunder goes boom and rain goes splash
look at us all just runnin' around trying to make a little cash
i've been staring at the wall listening to records
i got 'em playing over the traffic and weather
on the radio waves

you don't know what you've got til you don't have it
ain't nothing for sure but death and taxes, weather and traffic
i don't need much, don't do a lot of askin'
tryin' to wrap my brain around death and taxes, weather and traffic

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from home recordings III, released December 11, 2020

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