Another Man in Me

I’ve walked the switchbacks

Of the San Juan Mountain range

I’ve seen a sparrow fly

From a child’s hand

Something so mighty

Something tender and sweet

Just like the other man in me

I took the backseat

On a neighborhood drive

Hand in the wind

Finally in touch with my life

There’s something liberating

About losing control

There’s freedom in the other man in me

They told you I was trouble

Let me prove them wrong

That I can be a stand up man

I’ve been headed for the bottom

Like a sinking stone

But there’s another man in me

I’ve learned the lines

Of the great American songbook

I wear my leather shoes everyday

Better with time

Getting better with time

Just like the other man in me

There a photograph of my father

On the refrigerator door

He’s smiling at me

I don’t know what for

All the things I’ve done

And man, I’ve done him wrong

I guess he knows the other man in me