Calluses - Harry Chapin

I could tell you that I get asked a lot of times

How I can change the world

I’ve also have been asked a lot of times

How I can be a rock and roll singer

And do you see what’s on the end of my fingers?

Calluses and what that means is

If you’re willing to play the guitar night in, night out

For audiences of three people when you’re coming up

And finding that even your mother says, «Ppp, it doesn’t sound very good»

The point is very simple if you care enough you can have an impact

Because in the long run we’re not sure about a prior life

Or an after life, we’re all hoping for that

But what we can do is ma-maximize

What we have in this brief flicker of time

In the infinity and and try to milk that

And be hungry in a different kind of way

Hungry for experience, hungry for meaning

And you can be terribly, terribly effective if you want to be