Paul J Penton – Songwriter

Just like Sunday

Just like Sunday                    © Paul J Penton March 2009

  

Lately he’s been dreamin’ about how its gonna be

Sometime in the future there’s a place down by the sea

Fishing’ off the pier, – with his new grandson

Been saving every dollar,  to realise his dream

 

Been Working at the factory since he was seventeen

Those stacks on the horizon they been a friend to him

Always banked that paycheck There was just enough left

Times were never hard or so it seemed

 

And that dream ain’t too far away

Where he can live without a care

 

And every day will be like Sunday

He can do whatever he wants

He can fix the fence

or walk the dogs

learn to dance

or Whittle logs

He can sit out on the porch

’cause every day will be like Sunday

 

 

He’s been building up a nest egg up there New York

Somewhere in Manhattan they’re working after dark

growing all his dollars with a million others

they never have a moment to talk

 

And some financial crisis been comin’ to a head

He hasn’t taken notice of what the papers said

He doesn’t know no-body up at AIG

his dollars keep on growin’ he can see it every day

 

and that dream’s so much closer now

nothing can stand in its way

 

and every day will be like Sunday

He can do whatever he wants

he can grow some plants

or brew some hops

He can write freelance

and go for walks

or just sit out on the porch

’cause every day will be like Sunday

  

He came home on Thursday night and was sorting through the mail

found a yellow envelope it looked just like a bill

as his finger slit the top of it , 

might as well  have been his throat

all that money he’d been building up

had gone

just like a puff of smoke

he didn’t want to believe it

how everything was gone

he didn’t want to let go of his dream

 

where every day will be like Sunday

He can do whatever he wants

He can fix the fence

He can walk the dogs

He could learn to dance

He can Whittle logs

He can sit out on the porch

’cause every day will be like Sunday

’cause every day will be like Sunday

’cause every day will be like Sunday

’cause every day will be like Sunday