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Working With Your Hands

from Working With Your Hands by Trevor Clawson

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Working With Your Hands

I was thinking of a long-lost friend
Don't know why he slipped into my mind
We spent a summer on St Michael's Road
That long-hot summer back in 85

He had this car that hardly worked at all
Took it to pieces stripped the engine down
I helped him out and when the work was through
We'd talk and drink until the sun went down

There's nothing like it when you're working with your hands
Nothing like it - fixing something because you can
There's nothing like it when you're working with your hands
Fixing something
Thinking you can fix most anything

He but a book that showed him what to do
set all the parts out neatly down on the floor
Tried to work out where the fault was lying
Tried to make it work like it did before

There's nothing like it when you're working with your hands
Nothing like it - fixing something because you can
There's nothing like it when you're working with your hands
Fixing something
Thinking you can fix most anything

There's nothing like it when you're working with your hands
Nothing like it - fixing something because you can
There's nothing like it when you're working with your hands
Fixing something
Thinking you can fix most anything

He had this family that he never saw
He showed me photographs of better days
Two kids, eating icecream, down there on the shoreline
Now he wonders how he let that good thing slip away

All those auto parts laid out on the table
Did you ever put them back to work again
Fix that car and drive yourself to somewhere
Did you find yourself a better place

There's nothing like it when you're working with your hands
Nothing like it - fixing something because you can
There's nothing like it when you're working with your hands
Fixing something
Thinking you can fix most anything

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from Working With Your Hands, released April 1, 2021
Written by Trevor Clawson

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Trevor Clawson Brighton, UK

Trevor Clawson is an Irish singer and songwriter, currently living and working in West Sussex. Described by Time Out as "One of the best songwriters around" he combines folk, blues and jazz guitar styles with narrative lyrics.

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