The Bar

Its are church the place of confession were no one cares to listen.
They just gather  to wait  collecting  dust and  and spots on there livers.
The poetic fool who's blind to the truth.

And the beaten down and bitter old fighter.
Who missed his chance.
Who's last fight was with a cop who tried to give him a DUI.

Four broken ribs and a lot of booze and years later here he sits.
Shot of old crow and a beer.
He's sat in thta same spot for so many year i belive he's grown  onto the 
bar stool itself.

That pulling him from it would take a act of God or some old fashioned dynamite 
to pry his ass from it.
He's the past and my future staring through me like a ghost.

His horse voice echo's I'll forget more than you'll ever learn still stays 
with me  to this very day.

The bar it's my refuge from all.
And as long as i have the money I can spend my hours within it's confines.
away from all thoose dellusional pains in the ass that love to tell
whats wrong with you.

Never once looking at themselves  or wondering why  people  part like the red sea to avoid 
them.
Cowards and theives  and  then theres bad people to.
Who sell hope dope.
Belive in this  do as i say  and you can be as misreble as me.
Where do I sign up.

The bar  its the last resort of sanity.
Or at least a place where lifes problems can be fixed with some quarters for the 
jukebox  a beer and a shot.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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