It's sometimes kind of funny how songs come along. I was just explaining to a friend what happened because he noticed my knuckle bleeding. His response was to tell me that it sounded like a song and well sir, now it is.

How I scraped My Knuckle by Reggie Miles © 2005

I scraped my knuckle
Tryin’ to pry up a nickel,
That was stuck in the tar,
Run over by a car,
In the middle of the road.

And things don’t ever seem to get better.
Damn! This is getting’ old!

Now I don’t mean to bore ya,
With another sad story,
‘Bout a good man who can’t get a break.

Who thought that sooner or later,
His luck would change, for heaven’s sake.

I tried everything I could.
It didn’t do any good.
Nothin’s turnin’ out like it should.

And I don’t know how much more of this
This poor man can take.

It ain’t my choosin’
Seems I only win at losin’
It’s enough to drive a sober man to drink.

Hey, beer tender! Keep it full.
While I sit here and think.

All these dead end jobs
They leave me feelin’ kind of robbed
Nothin’ to show for the time that I’ve spent

I don’t even have enough left over
To pay the landlord’s rent

You call this a livin’?
All I do is all the givin’
And I don’t get a thing in return

Except another sad story
About a good man getting’ burned

I know it sounds funny
But I ain’t got no money
And these blues they’re a wearin’ me down

That’s why I’m scratchin’ like a hen for a worm
In this asphalt ground

And that’s how I scraped my knuckle
Tryin’ to pry up a nickel,
That was stuck in the tar,
Run over by a car,
In the middle of the road.


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