Grumpy Old Man

(Verse 1)

Looking out from my bedroom

Where the hills once rolled with grace

Horses played in the paddocks,

Now a wall just takes their place

Covered in tags, no meaning at all—

Another brick in the urban sprawl

(Verse 2)

Kids these days ink their stories on skin

But forget where the real stories begin

The nightly news bleeds through my screen

A broken world that’s lost its sheen

And I wonder if anyone's keeping score

(Chorus)

Got a mat on the porch says "Grumpy old man lives here"

Right next to the one she laid down last year

She still bakes pies and hums Patsy Cline

While I shake my head at the daily decline

The world’s going to hell in a handbasket

Might be glad when they lay me in that casket

(Verse 3)

First home dreams look like mansions now

But no one learns the why or how

Live for today, let the future burn

Would they bleed for a flag they never learned?

Guess I'm just a voice from a dying land—

Yeah, just a grumpy old man

(Bridge)

The coffee’s still hot, the memories still last

But the good days now feel buried in the past

So let the world spin fast and wild

I’ll sit on the porch with the ghost of a child

The one I used to be, before all this began...

Just a grumpy old man

(Outro Chorus – soft)

Yeah, the world’s gone to hell in a handbasket

I’ll be glad when they lay me in that casket

Don’t cry for me, I made my stand—

I was just a grumpy old man...