Smokey Joe Wood

from A Century Ago by Darth Nater

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Leather glove folded up
Launching phantom fastballs from the back of mass
Your cork core heart wrapped in yarn
Unwound with the sound of each cracking bat
From the mound of a mining town
From coal to diamond
From Ouray to Boston

You throw so hard your comet arm nearly flies off your body
A shooting star, a meteor, a great big ball of fire
And the umpire shouts
Out!

One of the girls
Bloomers and pearls
Barnstorming yards from Modesto to Blue Hill
Till you make your way to a greater stage
It’s 1908 and the world is yours to take

You throw so hard your comet arm nearly flies off your body
A shooting star, a meteor, a great big ball of fire
And the umpire shouts
Out!

Take me out to the ball game
Take me out to the crowd
Buy me some peanuts and cracker-jacks
Watch out old chap for that patch of wet grass
But you slip and you fall and you stay down
Your hand's in crippling pain
It only takes one strike in this unforgiving life called the old ball game
Gasps fly from the stands like they're foul balls
Things will never be the same
You’ve hit the holy trinity, three strikes in one
At the old ball game
You can accept your fate but your stats will still tank
Cause you're out, you're out of the game

You peaked at 22
I’m turning 22 soon
I don’t know what to do
Help me
You peaked at 22
I’m turning 22 soon
You're no babe ruth
But you're still you

So sit out a season and get sold to Cleveland
Rise like a Phoenix and hit like a demon
You may not make it into the hall of fame
But I guarantee we'll remember your name
We'll remember your name
We'll remember your name
We'll remember your name

It's not like it was but it's not nothing either
It's hard to be a senator when you used to be a caesar
You'll never be great but you can be good again
You'll never be great but you can be good again
You'll never be great again but you can be good
Smokey Joe Wood, against all likelihood
You burnt your flame out but the embers still sprout smoke
Make the most of this joke
Make the most of this joke
Make the most of this sick, sick joke
Make the most of this sick, sick joke
Make the most of this sick, sick joke
Make the most of this sick, sick joke
Make the most of this sick, sick joke
Make the most of this sick joke

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from A Century Ago, released March 31, 2018

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Funny songs. Sad songs. Funny, sad songs.

Darth Nater is the solo project of Buffalo-based musician Nate Noworyta.

Lyrically dense story-songs filled with detailed imagery and characters. Musically rooted in folk and indie rock. ... more

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