Throwing Out Time
The only joint left in this one horse town
Where you can still light up a smoke
Is downstairs
In tickle the ivory
All you got to do is check your coat and hat at the door
Take a drink in hand, settle and listen to the band
Oh my sweet sweet Ella
You voice conveys a pain that I am used to
Like Smokey bar room blues
A sanctuary for the lonely recluse
Please don't stop
Play it again, again and again
Till throwing out time
As unlike you
I have no loved ones to go home to
Just me myself a smoke and glass of mirror
Listening to the needle trip
Stuck looping at the end of a record
Copyright © Christopher Flaherty | Year Posted 2011
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