Name: I Never Thought I'd End Up This Way
Duration: P00H03M29S
Description: Recorded in 2011.

Garry Leech w/The Misfit Boys - I Never Thought I'd End Up This Way

from The Lost Tapes by Garry Leech

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Recorded in 2011.

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I’m hanging on the corner with the local boys
Laughing and joking, making all this noise
Cracking open a beer, I bum a cigarette
I think I’d better warn you I’m taking all bets
On winter coming early, I can feel it in my bones
The fall has come and gone and left us out in the cold
Now the bookies are posting odds on us today
How many will make it ...

(Chorus)
I never thought I’d end up this way
No, no, no
I never thought I'd end up this way

Now I’m way down here inside my cardboard box
Oh what I wouldn’t give for just one pair of socks
That were not so holy that they brought me to my knees
Believe me I’m not praying, I’m begging you please
Send down another beer or one more cigarette
You call it charity I call it my last request
For a chance at happiness today
You gotta believe me ...

(Chorus)
It was never meant to be this way
No, no, no
It was never meant to be this way

Way down at the end of this abandoned street
That’s me walking ‘round with no shoes on my feet
Sometimes it feels like winter twelve months a year
When you’re so isolated nobody comes near
And far, far away in that black limousine
There’s a new world king and his society queen
I watch the lights change as they slowly pull away
And I’m thinking to myself ...

(Chorus)
I never thought I’d end up this way
No, no, no
I never thought I'd end up this way

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from The Lost Tapes, released April 12, 2020
Written by Garry Leech
Arranged by The Misfit Boys

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Garry Leech Sydney, Nova Scotia

Garry Leech is a songwriter, author and journalist. Since moving to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia he has performed as a solo act and with his band The Misfit Boys. Previously, he played for many years in New York City's club scene with the bands Spyder Jones, Bad Fish Karma, and The Flowerpot Men. For more information about Garry's music and work, visit his website. ... more

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