Pinball Song Lyrics

Pinball Song lyrics

Six weeks on the road now, I'm feeling kind of spent
There's a few things I
need and ones a friend
A few good games of pinball and a double whiskey
sour
I'll rinse it with a beer and repeat again

You know I couldn't
find you in the place you used to be
I'm a sucker for the old times, that's
me
But I asked around the bar and they said you were gone for a couple of
days
On a vacation in the drunk tank so they'd say

I saw that girl
you used to know at the other end of the bar
I never thought she'd ever get
that far
She said you two were through, it seemed you were driving for
different things
I said I understood, I've wrecked that car
So now
there's thirteen empty bottles, a glass or two or four
The lights came on we
headed for the door
But the night was adolescent and she said she wanted
more
And that's what she kept the apple blossom for
So up the stairs to
her apartment with the Christmas lights that blink
It's the second week of
May but that'd be okay
Except that under those blinking lights we opened a
big old can of stink
And you smell it soon enough in one more
day

Saturday, the twelfth of May, the policeman turns the valve
And
the first drunk of the weekend dribbles out
Collect all your effects and
take a cab straight to the bar
You're wondering what the whisperings all
about
Well I'll tell you:

It's about the easy sheen of alcohol, of
better-not-do's done
Of blinking lights and the curse of roomates'
tongues
An entire bar's worth holding theirs, but it only takes just
one
And then it's pass that can around, it's your turn, son
Because this
pinball gane I'm playing, you know it's not the same

Times used to be
you and me could always match
Yeah and the multiball came easy just like the
replay game
And the wagers won and tossed hard down the hatch
So now I
nailed the free game and there's a bottle across my head
My table tilts, I'm
headed for the floor
Went out to find an old friend but I lost me one
instead
I lost it all for just another score