v1.0 The Buddy Road | Nick & Me

The Buddy Road [Verse 1] We started on the same damn day Under kitchen lights and steam I was washing down the plates You were cutting up the green Thai food smoke in the back room air Floor wet, clock slow Neither one of us knew yet How far that road would go [Verse 2] You had your shift, I had mine But somehow we lined up Walk to work, walk back home Same old dust, same cup New Freedom had its rules and walls We learned the shape of those But out there on the sidewalk We had somewhere else to go [Chorus] Me and Nick on the buddy road Talking through the heat Laughing at the busted world With blisters on our feet Everybody saw it plain Before we ever said Two men walking side by side With the same storm overhead [Verse 3] We talked about whatever came The dumb, the deep, the strange How people break, how people lie How fast a life can change You’d say something sideways I’d throw something back Then both of us would laugh it off And keep on down the track [Chorus] Me and Nick on the buddy road Talking through the heat Laughing at the busted world With blisters on our feet Everybody saw it plain Before we ever said Two men walking side by side With the same storm overhead [Bridge] Before the trouble found the door Before the room got small Before the old road turned around And took another fall There was work and there was walking There was smoke behind the line There was one friend beside another For a little stretch of time [Final Chorus] Me and Nick on the buddy road Not clean, but something true Kitchen shoes and Arizona dust And too damn much to do If memory gets one mercy Let it keep this part instead Two men walking side by side With the same storm overhead