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The Johnstown Kids

from Like A Metaphor by Rob Szabo

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The Johnstown Kids
(Szabo)

The Johnstown kids really play it like they feel it
They sing it like they say it and they say it like they mean it
The Johnstown kids really play it like it hurts they can’t afford their health insurance
It’s not a government service

Well Endless Mike sent me a note he said he liked what I was sayin’
He thought my songs were really special and they “really bring the pain”
I didn’t really know him so I took it with a grain
I didn’t get what he was sayin’ ‘til I went down there to play

The Johnstown kids really play it like they feel it
They sing it like they say it and they say it like they mean it

Well the bassist in the Club he had to quit to get a job
But it’s not like he’s givin’ up it’s just he’s got a bad case of …
The kids in other bands they all pitched in to lend a hand
Too bad they couldn’t meet end to end and pay for all his medicine

The Johnstown kids really play it like they feel it
They sing it like they say it and they say it like they mean it
The Johnstown kids really play it like it hurts they can’t afford their health insurance
It’s not a government service

It’s not some kind of act
They really feel like that
They didn’t sit around a boardroom table trying to come up with the right angle
Some of them are really feeling bad
Sure could use some medecine
Meanwhile city council went and blew their cash on an enormous flag when they could really use a bandage

The kids in this here little town they play what could be called punk rock
But it don’t matter what you call it I just know it doesn’t suck
It don’t sound much like punk you might hear on the radio
It doesn’t sound all that grown up because they’re having too much fun

The Johnstown kids really play it like they feel it
They sing it like they say it and they say it like they mean it
The Johnstown kids really play it like it hurts they can’t afford their health insurance
It’s not a government service

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from Like A Metaphor, released April 25, 2006

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Rob Szabo Toronto, Ontario

Rob Szabo is a Songwriter/Producer/Musician. He has collaborated on dozens of albums for other artists, recorded 6 solo albums & 4 albums with former bands Plasticine & Groove Daddys -Buy Groove Daddys here: groovedaddys.bandcamp.com

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