Ben Carroll: Listen To Music
6. Old Bowling Alley
(Real Thing, 2007)
I'm walkin the long room in the old bowling alley
Still got a shine on the floor
Cigarette butts from the post-union rally
Garbage waitin at the door
My lover, my wife and my mistress
They were one in the same
My darling Annie she left us this Christmas
Left this place in my name
Over there she combed her hair and smiled
Joe would stare and Mo would roll in style
I will not say goodbye
Goodbye's for all them fools
We open the doors at 5 p.m.
And do it all again
Mo's a postman with me down the station
We do alright for ourselves
I get angry but Mo's always patient
Posted his little sister's bail
Annie told me that Mo was good lookin
But not the kind she desired
She told me that she just wanted something
To fill her life up with fire
Drinking hard and dragging cars did fine
We were barred from several bars in time
I will not say goodbye
Goodbye's for all them fools
We open the doors at 5 p.m.
And do it all again
We open the doors at 5 p.m.
And do it all again