Jeremy Abbott - Don't Worry Tchotchke Lyrics

Everybody wants to tell me how to live
Everybody got that good advice that they wanna give
Ever since I took the training wheels off my trike
I got some people telling me how I ought to live my life
Don't worry Tchotchke
I can See you're stressing out
Just be kind to everybody
And it will all work out
Back in 93 I graduate with degree
I had a scholarship to go and study chemistry
My mind was ready for the battle
But my heart was in Seattle
All the coolest bands I knew were coming Through
I moved out from the fields
To the Space Needle
I was blown away by all the buildings and the people
Got a job pushing road cases
At all the local stages
And I got to go backstage and see the shows
I kept my act together
Working hard till it got better
Pretty soon I got to traveling around the states
But it wasn't me upon the stage
So it was never my dream inevitably Came A-day
That it was time to try a new thing
Don't worry Tchotchke
I can See you're stressing out
Just be kind to everybody
And it will all work out
Learned about 'lectricity while I was on the road
So I think I would try out being an electrician
In The world of construction there's a lot of heavy lifting
There's a lot of digging there's a lot of joking
I've always loved hard work rough hands in a dirty shirt
It made me feel good when things were done
The bossy said don't worry man and
In 5 years you're a journeyman
Just keep your head down and work son
Now I can wire lights
I can wire houses right
I put em up on polls and I can put em in the ground
I can wire for my friends I can wire for my kin
And after 10 years I could wire pretty much anything
I had enough money saved
That I can take a girl on a date
Not the homemade kind but the kind where you pay
But I was drifting further from my childhood dream
Something inside of me was slowly losing steam
Don't worry Tchotchke
I can See you're stressing out
Just be kind to everybody
And it will all work out
Most of my life I've thought I'm been where I'm supposed to be
Even though if the younger me looked at me now I wonder I ended up here
I followed the opportunities while also staying true to me
I got married one time had 2 boys 1 time
Got divorced 1 time but now they're all mine
I Met a girl from Utah I like the way we get along
Hippie girl knew how to clear a bong
She Moved up here by the water
With her six-year-old daughter
Maybe see if we could get along
And now it's 10 years later
But it's still like I just met her
Cuz The chemistry is right we keep it strong
A lot of men might stop there
Stay out of the cross hairs
Take the easy lane the rest the way
But out in the garage i started writing new songs
Been 20 years since i did that
I'm back to having fun so I just kept it going on
There you have it, now you got it, this is where it came from
Not a teenage prodigy
I'm just a guy who likes to sing about the crazy stuff that I find fun