I Show Up

Intro Rain on the roof of the little blue van and the morning don't care how I feel Verse I don't call myself a strong man I just call myself a man who shows up Six o'clock and the kettle knows me seven o'clock and the road knows my wheels There are better hands than mine in this town faster and cleverer and worth more pay But I have never yet not come and that is a kind of skill Pre Chorus I'm not the best thing on this road I'm only the thing that's here Chorus I show up I show up rain or shine I show up I show up I show up and that's the whole of it Post Chorus Not a promise made at midnight not a word I have to keep Just a body in a doorway in the grey before the heat Verse My mother worked a thousand mornings and I never saw her make a speech She put the coat on went and did it came home said nothing ate I thought that dullness was a sadness I was young and I was wrong The dullness was the love itself the love was showing up Pre Chorus I'm not the best thing on this road I'm only the thing that's here Chorus I show up I show up rain or shine I show up I show up I show up and that's the whole of it Post Chorus Not a promise made at midnight not a word I have to keep Just a body in a doorway in the grey before the heat Verse And the ones I loved who disappeared they didn't leave in one loud night They left in all the little mornings where they said they'd come and didn't So don't tell me it's a small thing to be standing where you said Half of every kind of faith is a man beside a bed Bridge And the young ones want a reason and I've never had a good one There's no medal in the drawer nobody claps you through the door Just the work and then the work and the quiet after work And I have come to love the quiet I have earned the quiet after work Verse So put my name on nothing grand don't go carve it in the stone Just say he came on Tuesday and he came the Tuesday after Say he was not a shining man say he was a standing one Say the door was hard some mornings and he opened it the same Break I show up I show up Chorus I show up I show up rain or shine I show up I show up I show up and that's the whole of it Post Chorus Not a promise made at midnight not a word I have to keep Just a body in a doorway in the grey before the heat Outro Rain or shine I show up rain or shine I show up Six o'clock and I show up