Mark McGuinn - Trampoline lyrics

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Trampoline

He woke up in the morning on the wrong side of the border

Six o’clock Tijuana times of the reporter

Around a TV with no picture in the hovel of a house he was in

He wasn’t looking for hope between the dope and the liquor

Just squeezin' for a slow death to come quicker

But that’s when he found hope in the little black book lying in the gutter

Now he’s got a plan and it won’t fail

There’s no wall high enough to keep him out

CHORUS: ‘Cause he’s found one a life’s little trampolines

And he keeps it in the pocket of his dirty jeans

Pulls out the Gideon Bible when he needs a lift

From the shackles of the world that he lives in

You can bounce so high when you got something to believe in

You can fly when you find,when you find your trampoline

She’s only fifteen years old going on 40

Living in the flatlets of a 32nd story of the red brick building

With the broken elevator she calls home

She makes her way to school pass the gangs and the deamons

Pass the helpless and the homeless and the end of the world believers

To that teacher who can reach her like the father she’s never known

Now she’s got a plan and it won’t fail

The streets are paved with gold when she is bound

CHORUS: She’s found one a life’s little trampolines

And a teacher who believes in that child's dreams

Made her study in math and her philosophy

Now she’s the first to go to college in her family

You can bounce so high when you got something to believe in

You can fly when you find, when you find your trampoline

Bridge: Sometimes our greatest moments only last a second

Then we’re on our way back down

So when you’re rising, rising like a rocket

You gotta keep your eyes on the ground

You can bounce so high when you got something to believe in

You can fly up to the sky oh nothing’s out of reach when you can fly

And you find your trampoline, your trampoline

Thanks to Sammy Copriva for correcting these lyrics