The One I Love - Night Shop

You talk about love like you’re heading into battle

Oh little baby don’t forget your rattle

Saw you at the bar again talking to the other men

Sounds like you got yourselves a really swell band

With your dead man’s shoes

And your dying man’s stare

Can’t see the floor for your dirty underwear

Margaret was a saint she was the only one

Timmy won her heart when he sang her a song

Yes it’s true

On a Manhattan Avenue

I followed the inscriptions to Keats' gold convictions

It’s Love as big as planets and a force transcendent

I’m only looking down just to get my balance

I always loved the ones who never cared about talent

Hi-fi lo-fi coming through your speakers

I never cared so long as I could hear you

But you’re headed for trouble now

Your’re headed for trouble now

And hubris

You better lose it

Cuz the joy and mystery

Are out there on the streets

And I was rising from my seat

When the thought occurred to me

What would I do without you?

I feel the patient grace of all human kind

When I’m at the convenience store, standing on the line

People stocking up just to try to feel good

It’s a long weekend in a loud neighborhood

Dawn is the employee of the month this month

Could I be like her in the eyes of my love?

Now I’m back on the blacktop, fireworks, crickets chirp

Won’t you come and meet me in the parking lot?

Tonight

I’ll make it work your while

Yeah, tonight

I’ll make it worth your while

Oh, cause I’m only really thinking of

The one I love

I’m only really thinking of

The one I love

I’m only really thinking of

The one I love

I’m only really thinking of

The one I love

Well I had a song in my head since the dawning of time

And I tried to search it out in every verse and rhyme

I was in my bedroom making such a clatter

Then you came in and said what’s the matter?

I said nothing

But please

Don’t leave

And that’s how it all started