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Man With a Plan

from Vox Box (Burnt Taters) by Burnt Taters

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Originally written by Craig & Gary back in Monday Week days, this was a mainstay of the Monday Week years. One of Gary's best chorus hooks ever, and it features one of our only "recitation" bridges!

The story behind this, in brief, was written when a girl that Craig was dating went off to a church camp and left him for someone "more spiritual". In retrospect, of course, it turned out for the best but at the time it was hard to understand (some things are timeless!)

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Man With a Plan
©1998, Craig Evans & Gary Walker, BMI. All Rights Reserved

There's been a lot of ways
You've let me down before
Losing my salad days
On shows you wouldn't explore
Now there's a sadness creeping in
It feels like this is the end

Everybody say a man came by today
With a better plan for taking you away
Wish I had my story down
When the sound
Of his crown cuts through
I really don't believe it's true

Outside my window
I can see a street of gold
I should be walking there
But I might have grown too old
Nowhere on earth I'd rather be
But time's no guarantee

I feel the weather turn
And the winter coming on
If there's a fire to burn
Then it won't be burning long
Now as you turn the key to go
You won't be back, I know...

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from Vox Box (Burnt Taters), released May 30, 1999

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