Martin Finke - Rowboat lyrics

You were faced with a flight to the industry Fire and smoke in your home Your family was there to build bridges And a lover in sight A love to get by on I'm walking alone to the lonely printhouse It's distant from my house And it's distant from your house Thinking of you on a late shift Praying and eating before morning And I love all the paper we print on I take it right down to the brewery Where springtime and music time are brewing And he reads it aloud with a brewer's affect And a lover in sight A love to get by on The power lines hum and they hum Bar room is red and the lights fade down A blessing of beer and of boot trails Impossible hope by the bedside And why am I speaking of this The good boy drunk drowning in happiness There's an offside of fortune within me Pa**ion where pa**ion can be Like a pa**ion for food or for hockey And a lover in sight A love to get by on My heart dressed in sawdust A farmhand's desire A rowboat undefeated by swells It's a rowboat we've captained so well