Goal-Setting and Other Dubious Practices (Voice Memo) Lyrics

I was seven when I wanted to leave Chicago

Posters on my wall showed me all of the places I couldn't go (Break)

My daddy told me that I had to go get an education

My momma told me that I couldn't leave her all alone

Oh no, oh no, no, no, don't leave, don't leave me all alone

Oh no, oh no, no, no, you're on the edge of the world, and you can't wait to leave your home

When I was eighteen I took a train to the docks at New Bedford

The man told me that I would have to work to go the rest of the way

So I hammered my nails and I carried my lumber 'til my back broke

Made my way to England on a ship that I built with my own two hands

So long, so long, goodbye, I'm leaving here, don't know if I

Will ever come back home to the place I never ever called my own

Found myself in Dover with a pint at the counter of the White Horse

Met a girl said she wanted to sail around the world

So I put on my coat and I told her to meet me by the water

Believe me when I tell you, we've been running around since that very day

Set a goal, oh set a goal, you've got to set your eye on something and you never know

If you might, later on in life, be living the story that I used to call my own