Empty Belly Blues No. 32-Stephen Simmons

[ti:Empty Belly Blues No. 32] [ar:Stephen Simmons] [al:The Big Show] [by:] [offset:0] [00:05.57]Well there's folk stars in East Nashville and country wannabees downtown [00:10.82]Who look up to all the has beens in the Brentwood mansion crowd [00:16.82]And the Goth kids in the malls menthol-smoking pierced and tattoed [00:23.01]All think that Johnny Cash hung the moon [00:30.66]Well there's slim and trendy girls out near the Five Points [00:36.50]And hard candy Vandy girls out west are such a joy [00:41.69]And there's well-adjusted well-kept from Bellvue living in my songs [00:48.63]But none of em will ever let me stay for long [00:52.88]And I'm singing each night for my supper [00:57.74]And folks ask me how I'm doing and they can't tell [01:03.22]So I stretch the truth till it sounds just right [01:08.29]But my stomach tells me things ain't going too well [01:11.58] [01:18.28]And my friends back home all say they're pulling for me [01:24.97]Such a tough business they say it seems [01:32.47]But I just shrug my shoulders sip their beer and nod but then acknowledge [01:37.22]Rock 'n' Roll's damn sure good work if you can get it [01:43.46]And so I hang out with my Cousin and smoke his good weed [01:48.75]And have lunch with my Uncle and let him buy mine for me [01:54.36]And I find an old lost lover man just in time for supper [01:58.24]And I ask my brother if his store is hiring part-time workers