Johnny Mike Songwriter Music

Lyrics

Never Came Back
Verse 1
Punchin’ time clocks, another crooked boss, for 30 years in the trade
Same politics, same broke machines, same waste of skill band-aiding things
Rewarding hard work was more hard work
Naturally, burnout soon began
He packed his clothes, drove a road
To find himself again
Verse 2
At a gulf pier, middle of the year
He's feeling a bit out of place
Quiet in the air, no press running there
No sense of push to make tack rate
Sunrise at a time, begins to unwind
Loosens up to let himself breathe
Slowly old habits that followed him
Began to take a new back seat
Prechorus
Cool change in the air became real
The wear on his soul began to heal
Chorus
He never came back, built another life
Trading overtime for ocean time
He'd no longer be a cog in a machine
Finding better paychecks cash can't be
He never came back
Bridge
What he found's no longer let a trade define
The man who was leaving everything behind
He couldn't go Back
repeat chorus