California Strongman

This man has inspired me, I hope he inspires you too

 California strongman learns

How to be a little stronger

Little boy with a beard

He's gonna live a little longer

Voices saying "weakling"

Crackle in the fire

But California strongman

Is walking on a wire

He lifts all the troubles

Barbels and barrels

Dad's voice implodes 

He slinks to the shadows

Dies

Deflated balloon shrivels

But now his muscles grow

On his heart, on his soul's bones

He 

Grows

         Grows

                        Grows...

This California man

 Is finding home

Inside himself

Inside the roads

He thought he'd never walk

But now he runs, 

Unchained past it all

He trips, tastes dirt, brushes off from the fall 

He will out-muscle 'em all:

The break-em-down haters, 

The beat-em-down spite

The rhythm of the pain

The echo of the night

This is his fight

This is his fight 

 California strongman learns

How to be a little stronger

Little boy with a beard

He's gonna live a little longer

Doubters point their fingers

Old friends look away

But California strongman

Bench presses a new day