"One for the Road" Lyrics

Don't Try'n Change My Mind (Ronnie Lane)

Don't try to change my mind
I ain't nobody
I just been where I been
And I seen what I seen
Nothing more

Don't try to change my mind
I don't want no secrets
The answers don't ask
All the questions there are anymore

One thing that I know
Where she takes me
That's where I'll go

The answers don't ask
All the questions there are anymore

Don't try to change my mind
It's just a story Just a stage, just a scene
Just a dream in a dream nothing more

I've seen her come and go
She comes like sunshine
She goes like snow

Just a stage just a scene
Just a dream in a dream nothing more

One thing that I know
Where she takes me
That's where I'll go
Don't try to change my mind
When you come all alone
And you go on your own
Out that door

32nd Street (Ronnie Lane)

I'd rather have my life than be unborn I'd rather have a bad time than no time at all I'd rather take the storm than be becalmed I'd rather have my life than be unborn
But if I was a monkey up a tree All you big old blackbirds would come and take a peck at me But I'd rather have that life than be unborn I'd rather take that writing off the wall
if I was a monkey up a tree Or down in some old basement on 32nd Street But I'd rather live a nightmare that's my own I'd rather take that writing off the wall
Sometimes I think I must be going crazy 'Cause most people seem to value that that hasn't any worth That's their business now you know I'm easy As long as they don't count on me to do their dirty work
I'd rather be the rain than be a pond I'd rather I had nothing than had something that I'd borne I'd rather make my church the open road I'd rather wipe that writing off the wall
if I was a monkey up a tree Or in some dirty basement down on 32nd Street I'd rather take my life than be unborn I'd disregard that writing on the wall
Sometimes I think I must be going crazy Most people seem to value that that hasn't any worth Well that's their business now you know I'm easy As long as they don't count on me to do their dirty work
I'd rather have my life than be unborn I'd rather have a bad time than no time at all I'd rather take that storm than be becalmed I'd rather have my life than be unborn
Give me just one wish and leave me be Give me some old shack upon that rocky mountain scene But I'd rather take my life than be unborn Yes, I'd rather wipe that writing off the wall

Steppin' An' Reelin' (The Wedding) (Ronnie Lane)

When I wake this morining
I'm gonna take you for a ride Go and get your shoes on Gonna take you in a buggy by my side

I ain't superstitious
But I'm gonna dress you all in white
From the chapel to the champagne
I hope you'll still be standing come the night
'Cause we're gonna cut a caper
We'll go steppin' and reelin' til the light

My love for you it hurts me
Hurts me bad, cuts me deep inside
That's why come the morning
I'm gonna take you for a ride

Something old
I see you wearing something once was new, babe
And there's something borrowed
I see you wearing something once was blue

All those ornamental ruins
There so typical of me and of you, babe
That's why come the morning I'm gonna take you for a ride
Go and get your shoes on girl
And get you and your skinny ass outside
If you ever break my heart I swear
I'm gonna break your jaw and then I'll die
'Cause my love for you it hurts me
Hurts me bad, cuts me deep inside

But those ornamental ruins
There so typical of me and of you, babe
Katie, get your skates on, girl
The kids ain't dressed and we're running out of time
The best man, he's hungover
And he done and gone and left the ring behind
Your mother's in the front yard
And I think I know what's going through her mind

Something old
I see you wearing something once was new, babe
And there's something borrowed
I see you wearing something once was blue
I've heard it said
That you can shake a leg or maybe two, babe
That's why come the morning
We go steppin' and reelin' cross the night

Nobody's Listenin' (Ronnie Lane)

It's a small, bad world When your first true breath's your last And there's a tooth and nail Down every alley or maybe valley that you pass And the lies come first And the truth will always come home last And all your future's tied up in your past

You must have heard about the boy when he cried wolf
He cried wolf once too long
But the last time that they heard him he told the truth The last time nobody came 'Cause there was nobody listening anymore

You must have heard of Mr. Pilot
He washed his hands
He washed his hands the best he could
After he stood up on his soap box and he told the land
"I can't see nothing wrong"
'Cause there was nobody listening anymore

I can count them on my fingers
One by one
One by one down they go
All these hard luck stories
Oh man, oh man
I've got problems of my own
'Cause there ain't nobody listening anymore