Peter J. - Everything Considered lyrics

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Verse:

Joe he was a friend of mine, I've known him for a long long

Time... Ever since I was a boy... and he'd moved in next

Door... Well, he didn't do much talkin',... but when he'd tell a

Tale,... well you could listen for hours and hang on every word.

He would tell us stories... of long ago... The times he had spent,...

With the girl next door,... and he would tell us tales,... of when he

Was a lad,... and all the dickens that he'd gotten into,... and all the

Fun that he had.

He would tell us stories,... about the war,... brave men he had fought

With,... who never did come home... and he'd say out loud their

Names,... each and everyone,... as if he could still see them standing

There,... and then he'd settle down.,... and he'd say, son...

Chorus:

Everything considered,... I lived a pretty good life... I never got

Rich,... nor, did I take a wife... but what I saw of this old

World,... I'll take to my grave,... you see son,... all the world's a

Memory,... of stone and ageless names.

Verse:

Now one day I saw old Joe,... sittin' out on his porch... So I wondered

Over,... just to say hello... and we sat there for hours,... and never

Spoke a word,... and then he turned and he smiled at me,... and I wondered

On back home.

Now about a month went by,... when Joe and I say down again,... and he

Took out some pictures,... of him and his men,... and in a box he held so

Tight,... was a Bronze Star,... the medal of Valor,... and a Purple

Heart.

It was then that I realized,... what a man I had met,... an honest to

God Hero,... a man above the rest... a man who fought for

Freedom,... who put it on the line,... so, others wouldn't have

To,... at least for a time...

(Instrumental)

(Spoken during instrumental): Now, just the other day... the mail man

Came,... and he had a special delivery,... and I knew right

Away...

Verse:

Now, I've since long moved away,... I got a wife and two kids,... and

I tell them the stories,... as Joe once did,... and I watch their

Faces,... as they hang on every word,... and then I take out the box and

Show them the medal's...

Today I came home,... to see old Joe,... pay my last respects,... to

A man I had known,... I had learned so much,... from this gentle

Man... and as I touched the stone,... his words hit

Home... and I could hear him say, Pete...

Everything considered,... I lived a pretty good life,... I never got

Rich,... nor, did I take a wife,... but what I saw of this old

World,... I'll take to my grave,... you see son,...

All the world's a memory,... of stone and ageless names,... and he'd

Say son,...

All the world's a memory,... of stone,... and ageless

Names.