Frank Rogers

Frank Rogers
The Life and Lies of Frank Rogers (Album)
by Eric Dulin

Its a rough draft. Any and every comment is welcome, especially on the CHORUS. It's too long for my belief, but for some reason I can't make one for this song...

Pre-Chorus
This song is for anyone like Frank, whose trying as hard as they can to make ends meet. Nobodies holding you back but yourself, so go out there, show the world who you are, and who you were born to be.
Verse 1:
Franks like any guy trying to make it through life,
Even if it means late shifts and another job on the side.
His house is a broken home/ he and his wife trying to raise a child,
While he's addicted to pills and Aubrey's working full time.
He's gone all day/ scraping the cash for their loans,
With Barely enough/ to put food on the table
He had to sell his car/ goes to work on an old bicycle,
Angry all the time for the sh** they got to go through.
It’s been like this for a while/ now he’s getting desperate,
He’s startin to lose sense of himself and knows he needs help,
Between the fights at work and poppin pain pills,
Government checks and the damned foreclosure bills,
trying to find a way to break out of this hell,
he's caught in a web of deception that calls for intervention,
But nobody was there to offer a shot at redemption,
Leaving him to come up with his own resurrection.

Chorus:
Some days make ya feel like lifes flying by,
Were you don’t care /whether you gonna live or die,
Snap out of it/ or you’re trapping yourself in a lie,
Hoping everything will come out just fine.
You’re in control/ you’ve got to make the change.
It’s up to you to take the second chance,
Everyone deserves it, but only you can make it happen.

Sometimes after work/ he goes and looks for dope,
But the dealers are all gone/ the cops on every corner
So he Goes to the local den/ hoping it’d help his mortgage,
But one thing leads to another and soon his paychecks on the line.
Its kind of funny, how Lifes like a game of dice,
a little flick of the wrist and it can change your life
And he left with only a couple dimes,
Thinking he would've won just like last time.
So he comes back home to a screaming wife,
Whos Askin why he's wasting his entire f***ing life)
I’m tired of these excuses and all these sh***y lies,
What chu gonna buy with a couple of loose dimes?
All of our lives are on f***ing the line!)
He knows he's gotta change his way of life,
But he works so hard, he just never has time,
Between his family and the diner, and work on the assembly line
So he goes and leaves his crying wife n child,
Planning to hang at the local bar for a while,
Only to run into the end of a broken bottle
After getting jumped by guys, hoping their hustle would be worthwhile
They left him on the ground Bleeding n barely breathin,
Someone called for help once they left the scene,
by then he was hurting, but the last thing he could see
Was his wife on the phone, tears fallin as she saw the scene

Some days make ya feel like lifes flying by,
Were you don’t care whether you gonna live or die,
Snap out of it, or you’re trapping yourself in a lie,
Hoping everything will come out just fine.
You’re in control, you’ve got to make the change.
It’s up to you to take the second chance,
Everyone deserves it, but only you can make it happen.

He wakes up in the hospital and the first thing that he sees,
Is Aubrey in tears, trembles in her knees
Why frank, why? What were you even thinking?
Between the pills and the fights, I'm done trying.
I’m taking James with me, and we're both leaving!
No baby wait! I don't know what I was doing
But I'm gonna change, no matter what it takes,
So wipe away those tears, it's just going to be us three.
And I promise I'll give you anything you need.
It's too late Frank, I've tried everything!
You just won't change, so we're both leaving!
And just like that they were gone, He was hardly breathing,
Watching Her walk away simply left him speechless.

Some days make ya feel like lifes passing by,
Were you don’t care whether you gonna live or die,
What are you waiting for? Still listening to these lines?
Still hoping that everything will turn out just fine?
Yeah, I’m talking to you, don’t act like you can’t hear,
And don’t try to drown me out with another bottle of beer.
I’m here to stay, and no I’m never leaving,
Until I make it clear that you’ve got to keep fighting,
That you’re gonna win back what your heart always desires.

Four years passed, but he could never find them,
He decided to finish college while working on the line,
Not touching a single pill or even a drop of wine,
unwilling to gamble even a couple dimes.
He asked around the city for em, hopin for an answer,
He hired private eyes, but they couldn't help him either.
So he was James long lost father, unable to help his mother.
But then one night, he got a call from his brother,
Saying that he ran into a lonely single mother,
Who was trying to find James’ long lost father.
In less than a day Frank was up in Brooklyn,
Hanging at his brothers until he could finally meet her.
The same night Aubrey came over to meet him.
They both changed, but the one thing that beseeched them,
Was the love that had never died between em.
And so they decided to reunite old ties,
Breaking away from the old excuses and lies,
As they went to live their new entwined lives.

Hows it like, Now that life is barely passing by,
And you care about whether your gonna live or die,
What are you waiting for? Still listening to these lines?
You’ve got a life to live, so go out and enjoy it.