Free Pour

On the shy side of forty

In the land of free pour

Nobody's writing, there's nobody left

Order a beer, let's have a drink to my death

Is there nobody else coming?

Have you got any friends?

Pulled up a seat and took off my hat

Took a drink and sucked another one back

Ordered again and said

Baby, I'm on the shy of forty

Still writing riffs like nobody's business

Except in my case it most certainly is

I'm a professional riff writer

Slinger of pure metaphor

I named my band and couple of stands I commanded

Even TM'd on a gaggle of tours

Then she laughed, I said

Maybe you have no reason to know me

I don't care, I ain't keeping score

Nobody's faith here you need to restore

I'm on the shy side of forty

I'm on the shy side of forty

Is that a reason to love me?

I like your jacket, you hardly tip

I like your smile, but I have to admit

I have never heard your body of music before

I act surprised, turned on Spotify, it isn't there

Some copyright territorial rift

Will you just take me at my word?

Nothing less nothing more

Out of my mind, I'm down on the floor

All out of time but I'm begging for more

I'm on the shy side of forty

Is that a reason to love me?

I had a dream of my old high school

There was nobody left

Just that old janitor Russel Avery Smith

My first girl, my first love, my first kiss

I caught them fucking in basement

The type of place it would happen

The kind of thing at this type of event

You'd never believe but kind of always suspect

But it was kind of romantic

It had its own inner logic

They asked me why, and how I got in

I could not emit the sound to tell them

It was our twenty year reunion

I got the email, I went

Russel was kind, he was good to his kids

Maybe I always underestimated

Everybody else around me

We gotta make our own beauty

Time and time we have to find it again

When we die, do we start over again?

Back at the shy side of forty

At the shy side of forty

[Outro]

Time and time we have to find it again

At the shy side of forty

When we die, do we start over again?

At the shy side of forty

Time and time we have to find it again

When we die, do we start over again?

Back at the shy side of forty

At the shy side of forty