James McMurtry - Hurricane Party lyrics

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The 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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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Though she calls when he's out of town<br />

And 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 in your space once more<br />

I was looking for an easy score<br />

But it just don't work that way<br />

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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 />

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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 />