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Buck 65
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Most folks spend their days daydreaming of finding clues
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My whole life I've been here at the train station shining shoes
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I started when I was nine, on my own and taught myself
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No complaints, I'm doing pretty good and I got my health
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Memories and callouses, my hearing's probably next to go
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Sometimes I do a little handywork for extra dough
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But mostly this here is how I spend my time
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And I've perfected a technique I call the dry shine
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Some guys use lots of water on the shoe but then when it's out in the open air
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The shine is gone in 10 minutes
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That whole approach to the job is dumb, in fact
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Dollars to donuts, that customer won't be coming back
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This is the most common mistake of the amateurs
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Going for big numbers to satisfy their managers
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Anyway, the dry shine, the first thing I mean to do
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And this part is very important
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I clean the shoe: the residue and old polish
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To keep a shoe from being ruined all you need to do is use a rag with some cleaning fluid
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If the shoe's all caked up with gunk you need to think
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The shoe can't breathe and that's what causes the feet to stink
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They took Carfoine off the market, I believe
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It was a few years ago, 'cause that leather couldn't breathe
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Now once you've cleaned the shoe and it's dried
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Your base coat of polish can now be applied
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Then you brush, 'cause what that tends to do
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Is clean the shoe a little more and gets rid of the residue
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And then you do the second coat just like the first one
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You brush it, you rag it, and voila, your work is done
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And that's it
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You treat each shoe like it's special
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Care about your work, and be a professional
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There's a right way to go about your job and a wrong one
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I find this way is much better in the long run
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It ain't about the dollar or trying to go fast
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Unless you take pride in what you're doing you won't last
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Craftsmanship is a quality that some lack
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You got to give people a reason for them to come back
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The world's a different place than what I was introduced to
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They don't wear shineable shoes like they used to
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Casual clothes in the office, what is this?
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The villain in sneakers is killing my business
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