One More for the Road

from Waiting for Greyhounds by Alec Steinwall

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One More Song for the Road

Nights like these I ask myself
What kind of life is this?
There must have been some hidden exit
On the highway that I missed
I've played fifty-thousand songs
In faceless bars, in nameless towns
All blurred now like a single Van Gogh
Painting in my mind

Two-AM and all these lonely people know
It's another night they'll all be going home alone

And so they say
Chorus:
Hey, play us one more for the road
One more little song before you go
Won’t you stay and play us one more for the road
Oh, won't you sing us one more for the road?

While the waitress tallies up
How her night has gone
And all the lights come on
But I've got one more song I have to play
Maybe it's been coloured by
All the beer I've had tonight
But this one is for all the thank you's
I forgot to say

Two-AM and all these lonely people know
It's another night we'll all be going home alone

Chorus

Nights like these I sit at this piano
And I'm tumbling, spinning, whirling
Like a fairground ride
And I have seen
The music spray like driving rain
To wash away the painful places deep inside

And so they say
Hey, play us one more for the road
One more little song before you go
Won't you reach inside
And lighten up our load
Oh, won't you sing us one more for the road
Oh, sing us one more song before you go
Hey play us one more song just for the road

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from Waiting for Greyhounds, released February 17, 2023
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Piano: Alec Steinwall
Drums: Mark Kelso
Bass: Jackson Steinwall
Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitars: Thomas Wade
Electric Guitars (lead): Jono Grant

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