James McMurtry - Hurricane Party lyrics
rate meThe hurricane party's windin' down<br />
And we're all waitin' for the end<br />
And I don't want another drink<br />
I only want that last one again<br />
<br />
He gave me such a fine glow, smokin' slow<br />
Now I should probably be homeward bound<br />
There's just no one to talk to when the lines go down<br />
<br />
I guess that in the morning I'll go<br />
Lookin' for my gray-striped cat<br />
My old house can take the weather<br />
So I'm not too concerned about that<br />
<br />
It was built to take the wind back in nineteen-and-ten<br />
When this was one damned fine town<br />
But now there's no one to talk to when the lines go down<br />
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Candles flickered on the back bar<br />
And the building was shakin' with the wind<br />
I bought a whiskey for the gypsy<br />
And she turned my leather back into skin<br />
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Just a fleeting sense of that rare suspense<br />
I once thought made the world go round<br />
But now there's no one to talk to when the lines go down<br />
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Open up your back screen door<br />
Let me see your face once more<br />
My hands are cold and my feet so sore<br />
And I can't go on this way<br />
<br />
And the thoughts come too fast<br />
And too many to keep count<br />
Best just to let 'em on through<br />
Now I'm breaking those glass insulators with my old 22<br />
<br />
Off the telephone polls as a half dollar rolls<br />
Across the knuckles of a rodeo clown<br />
There's just no one to talk to when the lines go down<br />
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My one great love, my God, I can feel her still<br />
She ran off to California and now she's living<br />
In those Hollywood hills<br />
With some bullfrog prince<br />
I've not seen her since<br />
<br />
Though she calls when he's out of town<br />
And there's no one to talk to when the lines go down<br />
<br />
Open up your back screen door<br />
Let me in your space once more<br />
I was looking for an easy score<br />
But it just don't work that way<br />
<br />
Some insurance man-biker<br />
Is yellin' out for one more beer<br />
But a part-time pirate just can't get<br />
Much respect around here<br />
<br />
We got our problems too<br />
man we'll get to you<br />
In just a minute, sit your drunk ass down<br />
Yeah, there's no one to talk to when the lines go down<br />
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Now there's water up past the wheel wells of my Ford<br />
And I don't guess that it'll run<br />
But I left a pack of Winston's on the dash<br />
Could you fetch 'em for me son?<br />
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The morning's first cigarette, that's as good as it gets<br />
All day I should know by now<br />
But there's no one to talk to when the lines go down<br /><br />