Borrowed Dime Blues

Verse

Six a.m., the alley's empty but for dust

Same shoe scuff where I left it last

Corner store light flickers like it's lost its rhyme

Barefoot in the gutter on a borrowed dime

I sold my radio for bus fare to nowhere

Left the block where every street still carries your laughter

Packed one bag, grabbed a newspaper to roll

Same old jacket with the collar missing a buttonhole

Pre-Chorus

What's a man do when his boots don't fit no more

When the same four walls keep calling him home

Tell me how far can a tired soul afford

To say I'm done and walk out into dawn

Chorus

I'm carrying what I came with, nothing more, nothing less

Empty pockets but my feet still know where to press

Every road got its crossroads, every goodbye's a door

I'm walking out the only way that's left for me once more

Verse 2

Six years gone and I'm still checking the mail slot

Same rusty gate, same cracked sidewalk, nothing altered — just forgot

City light blinking like it's spelling my name wrong

I kept the silver ring you gave me in a glass jar back home

Pre-Chorus

What's a man do when his boots don't fit no more

When the same four walls keep calling him home

Tell me how far can a tired soul afford

To say I'm done and walk out into dawn

Chorus

I'm carrying what I came with, nothing more, nothing less

Empty pockets but my feet still know where to press

Every road got its crossroads, every goodbye's a door

I'm walking out the only way that's left for me once more

Bridge

Maybe it don't matter if I made it far at all

Just getting out before this block turns cold again

Maybe home was just a name, not something you can hold

Sometimes leaving's the only prayer that answers when you pray

Outro

Sun's up now, gray as yesterday

Same old shoe scuff but the weight feels lighter today