It Weighs A Ton

Words/Music: Don de Leaumont

Think I'll sit down and have a drink,

cuz I don't care too much to think any more about the day.

Have myself a little smoke.  Try not to fix what isn't broke.

I just wanna sleep it all away.

    I haven't been so nice to myself.  I put myself up on a shelf.

    And push to the back to avoid the edge.

    But I'm learning gradually, to find that better part of me,

    Gotta lose this load, it weighs a ton.

I have a friend who lost her way, the maker took her mom away.

A few months later, they lost to the flood.

When she left New Orleans, she said, "I'll never got back it seems...

just be with what is, what's done is done."

    Some days it's hard to find, that little bit of piece of mind.

    When it seems that so much needs be done.

    Sometimes I cry myself to sleep, with worried dreams so buried deep.

    Gotta lose this load, it weighs a ton.

My father is quite the man, it took me years to understand

why he was the way he was.

My mothers still an innocent soul, not strong enough for a worlds this cold.

From her is how I learned to love.

    I tend to worry a lot sometime, about how I could ease their lives.

    It's a little easier said then done.

    I'll just offer them a smile, and maybe drive a few hundred miles,

    help them lose the load, it weighs a ton.

Tonite I'll close my eyes to sleep, and drift off into silence deep.

Try my best to leave it all behind.

When I wake I'll greet the sun, what is just is what's done is done,

it does no good regretting the past.

    I know sometimes it's easier said, to just put it all to rest.

    Sometimes it's easier said than done.

    Gotta learn it's not fair to me, to make myself the one to be

    Hauling this load, it weighs a ton.