Every Goodbye Lyrics - Singles - Mark Erelli

(Jim Armenti) 

I've been called every bad name, some I can't name 

By judges and lawyers and folks I never met 

But my mother she called me Walker Jermaine 

She said go out boy and make your own way 

So I tried making boxes out in Nashua 

Yeah I tried laying traps up in Bar Harbor bay 

But none of it held me and I got way 

Yeah I got away good, just as gone as I could 

CHORUS 

Every shuteye ain't sleep 

I know it's so 

Restless I ride in the linen 

Every goodbye ain't gone 

I know it's true 

I'm counting out days, leaving only a few 

I know it's not right to take what's not mine 

I'm sure it's not right, I know stealing's a crime 

But I know what it's like to see a life going down 

Like gravel in a grave, one grain at a time 

(CHORUS) 

Well I been here so long I got stones for old friends 

And I tell 'em my secrets and that's where it ends 

The woman who named me, she's in the ground 

But her Walker Jermaine just cannot be found