This Here Guitar

Walking downtown shuffling my feet

I try to dream my dreams above the concrete

Store windows, traveled for miles

But something I passed really caught my eye

It was cracked down the middle, permanent scars

But I fell in love with this here guitar

Nice to meet you

Can I teach you all I know?

Can you show me what you do?

Where have you been?

What have you seen?

Who were you before you even knew me?

Have you been played for endless hours

Or were you left in the corner?

Or were you someone's best friend?

This here guitar

It was my baby, anyone could see

I love the cracks, the curves, I hear the beauty

But I can't help wondering why

It came to me and when we'll say goodbye

The cracks down the middle can't see where they are

Since I fell in love with this here guitar

Nice to meet you

Can I teach you all I know?

Can you show me what you do?

Where have you been?

What have you seen?

Who were you before you even knew me?

Have you been played for endless hours

Or were you left in the corner?

Or were you someone's best friend?

This here guitar

Were you a present from a father to a son?

Did he forget you?

Or just play you 'till you came undone?

Hey, did some primadonna love you

'Till she got her fame and fortune?

I won't do that to you now

Nice to meet you

I can teach you all I know

You can show me what you do

Where have you been?

What have you seen?

Who were you before you even knew me?

And I played you for endless hours

Never left you in the corner

You're my one and only friend

Now I know where life lessons are

This here guitar

You're my guitar

This here guitar