It's not about fishing... 

Things are good / things are bad / we want things good again.  That's what this song is about. It's not about fishing.
 
The poem is a re-telling of the ancient story of Eden in three little thoughts: Things are good / things are bad / we want things good again. No more words needed. Good / bad / want the good times back, it's the story of humanity and it's the story of me…
 
Things were good when I was living down by a river town on the Mississippi River as a kid  and life was oh so fine. Grandparents. Cabin on the river. Fishing. But things didn't stay that way and then…
 
Things went bad. They weren't horrible but they weren't good. parents divorced when I was 2 to 7 - . Some say "we divorced on such and such a date"  but that's not true, divorces take a while, a lifetime, more than one lifetime actually. But anyway, I lived in ten places by time I was nine & then when we moved to the big ole town of Dallas. I didn't care much for it. Jumped out of the window at school but they brought me back. I went to a different school for every grade for 7th , 8th, 9th, 10th. All that stuff's not good for a kid and I really…
 
Wanted things good again and they got good when I was 17 and found a girl who made  me smile big time, Wendy, so we started putting a good life together fast &… Things were Good. But here's that theme coming again…Wendy & I found our way to that big ole town & thought we'd work for a livin which was Dallas again when I was 24, always have had a love / hate relationship with the city,  but we found all we was doin is workin, all workin and no livin and …
 
Things went bad. Wendy I both became career idiots & it took 10 years to get out of that and back to… Things going good so we moved to a horse ranch and then things…the theme goes on and on and up and down more than a see saw.
 
Things are good / things are bad / we want things good again and we want things to stay good and never ever change, want them to stay that way.…but they don't.     It’s a story as old as man & it's exhausting, but it's our story.
Rivertown

I was livin down by the river town and life was oh so fine.
I’d catch me a fish every time I’d throw out my line.
The sun was shinin and the river was flowin and it was always a beautiful day.
But life it always changes and things didn’t stay that way.
And the fish, they weren't bittin there no more.

So I found my way to this big ole town, thought I’d work for a livin.
But I find all I’m doin is workin, all workin and no livin
I want to find my way back to that town where life was oh so fine.
I want to catch me a fish, every time I throw out my line.
Where the sun is shinin and the river is flowin and it’s always a beautiful day.
And I want things to never change. I want them to stay that way.
Cause the fish, they ain’t bitin here no more.

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