Name: 1988
Duration: P00H03M35S
Description: This is the final song and the completion of the album. The song speaks of hope and ties into the opening message from "Speak Today" at the start of the record.

1988

from Summer Glow by Matt Tipton

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This is the final song and the completion of the album. The song speaks of hope and ties into the opening message from "Speak Today" at the start of the record.

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you can take them training wheels off, son
of that hand me down Schwinn bike
it’s 1988 and you’re a big boy now who just turned five

out on the back porch where you stepped on that tac
i know it might be hard to keep on running on this track
but you end up eventually coming round the other-side
and it’s not about what you get wrong
but how you learn to get it right

I remember on that rusted bike
you were blowing up that red balloon
And how the colors looked on that crooked couch
Within our living room

and In the back of William’s father’s pick up truck with the rusty brakes
Headed down a dusty dirt road to catch them rattlesnakes
you know it never seems to make sense when you’re suddenly surprised
by the heavy feeling of this life and what you hold inside
but son I promise you will learn to take it in then leave it all behind

there was nothing that you did to make your father run away
he was only young and wild but never free from his mistakes
but son I’d like to hold it in my heart that he would be so proud
of the man that you would soon become and way you lived it out

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from Summer Glow, released October 1, 2023

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