[Bridge] Youre alone above the street somewhere Wondering how youll ever count out there [Hook] You can walk, you can talk, you can fight But inside youve got something to write In your hand you hold your only friend Never spend your guitar or your pen Your guitar or your pen Your guitar or your pen Your guitar or your pen Your guitar or your pen [Verse 1] When you take up a pencil and sharpen it up When youre kicking the fence and still nothing will budge When the words are immobile until you sit down Never feel theyre worth keeping, theyre not easily found Then you know in some strange, unexplainable way You must really have something Jumping, thumping, fighting, hiding away Important to say [Verse 2] When you sing through the verse and you end in a scream And you swear and you curse cause the rhyming aint clean But it suddenly comes after years of delay You pick up your guitar, you can suddenly play When your fingers are bleeding and the knuckles are white Then you can be sure, you can open the door Get off of the floor tonight You have something to write [Verse 3] When you want to complain, theres no one can stop you But when your music proclaims, theres no one can top you You are wearing your heart on your jumping feet Youve got a head start away from the street But is that what you want, to be rich and be gone? Could be theres just one thing left in the end Your guitar and your pen [Verse 4] When you sing to your mum, and you hum and you croon And she says that shed like it with more of a tune And you smash your guitar at the end of the bed Then you stick it together and start writing again And you know that it wont be too long til youre back To bring her some money, shes calling you honey Stashed in a bloody great sack In your Cadillac [Bridge] [Hook] [Outro] Never spend your guitar or your pen
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