Scratchers - Little Wings

A guy walks into the liquor store

With his new paycheck.

What for?

To buy some scratchers

I’m so busy working at this liquor store

Ask him what he’s come in here for

He gives me the news

He says he wants seven greens and three blues

I watch him raise his last time

Into the air

Scratching like he just doesn’t care

And then I saw those tickets later that night

Soggy with dew

Right outside the bar where he went to follow you

Once, twice, three times even

Like a familiar wind

That blew right through

A girl and her dad

Go to the grocery store

It’s almost Halloween

They try to stick a mess of the twenties

Into the pumpkin carving machine

And then they choose from one of four faces on the screen

When they got the pumpkin home

Its face looked so mean