Cheap Seats

I learned to play guitar

To the snapping of pine in a campfire

And to this day, it don't matter where the stage

The first chord I play still smells like smoke

Play the same old songs until the ranger came and shut us down

And I learned then what I live by now

When you're

Luckier than you ought to be

Luckier by half

Best not to forget

How it came to pass

I've broken strings on stages I never thought I'd get to see

This is for the ones who've sung along the way

This is for the dreamers in the Cheap Seats

I may never love as pure

As the love my mother gave to me

And I may never backcheck as hard as my old man on Sundays at the MDC

I hope they see a little bit of both when I play this old six string

What I learned from them taught me to sing

When you're

Luckier than you ought to be

Luckier by half

Best not to forget

How it came to pass

I've broken strings on stages I never thought I'd get to see

This is for the ones who've sung along the way

This is for the dreamers in the Cheap Seats

(So much better)

There's a Nashville man who says

He knows exactly how this came to be

He wants to package up what we've done

Sell it out on late night TV

We built this thing on the backs of late nights down at the Bell in Hand

And if you weren't there

You wouldn't understand

When you're

Luckier than you ought to be

Luckier by half

Best not to forget

How it came to pass

I've broken strings on stages I never thought I'd get to see

This is for the ones who've sung along the way

This is for the dreamers in the Cheap Seats