Is not that I'm scared when tomorrow comes
It's the sum of all the things I done
The drinkin and the smoking and foolin around I seen
I fear I cut my time between
And the sum
Of the things I done
Don't add up to the way I feel
Maybe a woman woulda steered me clear
Maybe I never let them near
Maybe the one I needed never wanted me
Or maybe I was just to blind to see
And the sum
Of the things I done
Don't add up to the way I feel
Old man river can't sing his song
The brush is tall and the weeds are long
The leaves are dried and trees scarred
The old stone road seems a little too far
And the sum
Of the things I done
Don't add up to the way I feel
Time takes away
The youth of days
But can't take what's real
Now old man river sing a song
About the days when you were young
They pave the road for the days ahead
And clear the path on the ground I'll tread
If I'd only know?
It's the sum of all the things I done
The drinkin and the smoking and foolin around I seen
I fear I cut my time between
And the sum
Of the things I done
Don't add up to the way I feel
Maybe a woman woulda steered me clear
Maybe I never let them near
Maybe the one I needed never wanted me
Or maybe I was just to blind to see
And the sum
Of the things I done
Don't add up to the way I feel
Old man river can't sing his song
The brush is tall and the weeds are long
The leaves are dried and trees scarred
The old stone road seems a little too far
And the sum
Of the things I done
Don't add up to the way I feel
Time takes away
The youth of days
But can't take what's real
Now old man river sing a song
About the days when you were young
They pave the road for the days ahead
And clear the path on the ground I'll tread
If I'd only know?