Lucky Breaks Poem by Rusty Ed Gibson

Sitting here by the fire today
with nothing much I want to say
just playing my old songs

thinking back of all we had
didn't seem it was all too bad
wish I could change it all somehow
change the way it all turned out

but if we had never split
I would be by this fire pit
and I would be just as alone
cause you were any where but home

finally got it right today
when I woke up and I prayed
and gave the good lord thanks
Thanks for all my lucky breaks

Sometimes I just fall over
looking back instead of forward
I get trapped with where Ive been
seems to be my greatest sin

If I hadn't put jello in Julies chair
she wouldn't have held my hand at the fair
with all my friends standing there

If I had never mooned the crowd
I wouldn't have learned to make them laugh loud
I would still be in my shell

If I hadn't had a smart mouth
I wouldn't have learned to fight it out
or stick up for myself

If I could go back and not get in your truck
I wouldn't have been hurt when you broke up
but I would have missed out on so much

If I went back and changed my life
done things different done them right
I never would have learned
all these lessons that seemed to hurt

nothing else to understand
whats happened to me is not who I am
but its made me a better man
this road has made me a better man

finally got it right today
when I woke up and I prayed
and gave the good lord thanks
Thanks for all my lucky breaks