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I Don't Try | Song A Day #1915

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Channel: Jonathan Mann · 2014 · Music

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I don't try at all that's the secret to life
I don't try to try, do you know what that's like?
A leaf in the wind or a cork in the river
A mosquito in the rain or a shiver me timbers
I do my best to remain right here and remember 
That I don't try 

Now it can be tough not trying at all
I got all this energy and it's sits like a ball 
Pressing out of my chest it wants to roam freely
It wants to spin donuts and pop a big wheelie
But if I look straight up and stare at the ceiling 
Then I don't try 

I get a lot more done
If I don't try
It's a lot more fun
When I don't try 

Now I went to college and I got a degree
And a whole mess a good that's been doing me
Picking up this guitar now that was straight forward
Like the boy in the woods with the stone and the sword
I've been tumbling bumbling rumbling forward
I don't try 

People write tomes full of wisdom and wits
They espouse hacking your life into bits
But this piece of advice that I've been sharing
I know it's unorthodox and kinda scary
Stop your futzing worrying and preparing
Just don't try 

I get a lot more done
If I don't try
It's a lot more fun
When I don't try 

And when I've moved on I hope my tombstone will say
He did his level best not to try every day
He took one step and then another step after
No trying in good times or in the disasters
By the end of his life he was a master
He did not try 

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Beth Sroka

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