“Fish Out Of Water” by Menno Versteeg Feat. Doug Paisley is out now via Royal Mountain Records. You can listen everywhere here: https://royalmountain.lnk.to/menno-versteeg-fish-out-of-water
Lyrics:
A big mouth kid moves to a small town
Makes for a real messy opening verse
I was eight years old when I got my nose first busted
Up all over my shirt
But you learn the spots for swimming in the summer
And you learn to pass the puck
And you learn sometimes it’s best saying nothing,
When you don’t wanna test your luck
There’s a fish outta water
Every place you go
There’s a fish outta water
In everyone you know
I moved into the city
Some dude laughed at the curve of my brim
So I invited that flat hat man out back
And made a country boy outta him
My favorite bartender kicked me out
Said that’s not how we do it in here
He said “You can come back when you learn to relax,
And man you better buy me a beer.”
There’s a fish outta water
Every place you go
There’s a creature gasping upside down
In everyone you know
We’re all fish outta water
Flopping in the sand
But we slowly grew some legs somehow
And we learned to walk on land
The other day I ran into Tommy Kelly jr.
The kid who broke my jaw
He looks different now, just like me
He told me ‘bout his pa.
Sr. died last year
He had a shovel in his hand
He used to beat lil Tommy with an old extension cord,
but Tommy he still misses that man
There’s a fish outta water
Everywhere you go
There’s a creature taking their first breath
In everyone you know
So many sides to every story
That I don’t bother counting no more
We’re just fish outta water
Trying to get by on this shore