Real Man - Martin Sexton

In a workin' man’s dream.

I found my simple truth

There in the dark on the top of my roof

As the city’s blue sound swept up from down under

Heat lightening flashed.

Got me to wonder

Are the troubles that life has seen fit to give me

There to regret or there to remind me

I’m real.

I’m a real man

For so many years I believed I was broken

So medicine sweet and the leaves I was smoking

Told me I was strong, righteous and firm

But only if I comply and stay in the terms

With the deal made between weakness and shame

To shelter me from the price of my pain

I’m real.

I’m a real man, yes I am

And I’ll do everything a man possibly can

To make a difference

I’ll save my soul if you give me the chance

I’ll rectify my dreams if you let me see my way clear

As I thank my higher power for all that she’d done

I sing to the water towers and to the rising sun

For every woman or car crash that ever broke me in two

For showing me that there’s always a way through

And that I’m a real man, yes I am