Find Your Escape

[Verse] Gerry my boy life gets tough Hard to find what you're good at A place to stop thinking enough Just to walk and leave it flat [Verse 2] Hands and feet doin' their part While your mind is free to roam Found my best thoughts at work's start Cleaning floors like it's my home [Chorus] You ride trails up and down Forest paths riskin' it all I mop floors in this old town Paid to find my inner call [Verse 3] Find your escape do what’s best Quiet corners in the noise Forget the world take a rest We all need our secret joys [Bridge] Two different roads we wander Yet our hearts both find peace No need to ponder much longer Life's troubles they release [Chorus] You ride trails up and down Forest paths riskin' it all I mop floors in this old town Paid to find my inner call [Verse 4] Gerry you need to know I teach at the college Helping students grow I have a PHD in knowledge Books are my thing [Verse 5] I work here at nights letting my hands work while my mind fights Writing my papers Grading the work Easing my burden [chorus] You ride trails up and down Forest paths riskin' it all I mop floors in this old town Paid to find my inner call [Verse 6] Taking Ricky's words to mind I thought the next day Riding my trails answers to find At work a courier gave me my pay [Verse 7] An uncle left me his estate More than I could have needed Some countries could relate New life was seeded [Verse 8] I left this old town Bottle Green I was bound Giving my all down Games my skills found [catchy slide guitar solo] [chorus] You ride trails up and down Forest paths riskin' it all I mop floors in this old town Paid to find my inner call [Verse 9] Bottle Green a small city In the hills of Idaho A house big and gritty Cleaners brought that dirt low [Verse 10] Green flash in the night A visitor brought much Knowledge and fright Me, her mind touched [Guitar solo outro fading] [end song]