Trying
Afternoon Men
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We had a lot to live up to Now we got a lot to live down We took our share of grave missteps And I think they're haunting us now I met you at a college bar on a lazy Tuesday With a frat brother's mission to find Everyone a local girl from the Northampton side And you were my local girl that night You could tell I was trying, you could tell I was trying You could tell I was trying, you could tell I was trying I remember lying on your floor mouthing the words to "Ballerina" In the spring of 1969 Inflation was rising, the deficit soared And Van the Man was coming into his prime I got myself a job in trading on the NYSE And your dad lent me a suit and a tie The first time we heard Moondance, we were smoking on your roof With the stars up above in your eyes You could tell I was trying, you could tell I was trying You could tell I was trying, You could tell I was trying We set out for the city But something got lost on the way We made some friends you promptly pissed off And I worked all night and all day Then OPEC got sick of Nixon, oil prices shot up Around the time we were saying our vows Then the market took a dive, you took Quaaludes to sleep But Van kept saying, "It's Too Late to Stop Now" So I kept on trying, I kept on trying I kept on trying, I kept on trying You remember that summer in the city With our roof deck on Park? We let Volker fight inflation While we drank Champagne in the dark You were trying to get pregnant You wanted big strapping sons We probably should've cooled it on the wine But baby we were having so much fun Van was sang "Summertime in England", and the critics crucified him But you and I, we always liked the song I made a killing shorting silver and going long on index funds And I swear we were high all summer long And I was hardly trying. I was hardly trying I was hardly trying. I was hardly trying The 90s brought us Chandler, and Big Pharma Ads And a Neo-Georgian estate in the 'burbs You and Van were putting weight on but neither of you cared And I watched your passion for health and drugs merge The Prozac would put you to sleep, so you took Dexedrine to wake up And Klonopin to calm yourself down You'd have these lunches with your friends, you'd each drink a bottle of wine Then pick Chandler up from school across town She got your face and your hair and your nose and your chest Not sure she got anything of mine We spoiled her rotten but I still love her to death And she sure as hell knows how to have a good time But were you even trying? Were you even trying? Sometimes I swear you weren't even trying You weren't even trying Now I'm sitting by the pool mouthing the words to Ballerina In the summer of 2009 Chandler's out with her friends, you're upstairs in your room You'll stay there for days at a time It's just me and the dog now and this vodka on ice I don't think you've showered in days But sometimes I still see that girl singing "Ballerina" Through the facelifts and pharmaceutical haze So I'll keep on trying. I'll keep on trying I'll keep on trying. I'll keep on trying
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