Liquor Store/ Restaurant/ Motor Inn

from Live @ The Acoustic Grill by Tom Savage

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lyrics

Hey there's Jim
Diligently working on his scratch-and-win
His wife Mary has her hair up in curlers
Puffin' on a cigarette
A hundred millimetre Virginia Slim
Smoke rings drifting through the air

You can smell the stench of the paper mill
Rollin' on in from over the hill
The locals they say you get used to it after a while
But I'm about as filthy as I can be
And my clothes are beginning to stick to me
And all I can think of is a shower and a shave

CHORUS

You can get anything
At the liquor store, restaurant, motor inn
59.95 plus tax will suffice
But the TV only gets three channels, Oh my lord

I could see from the moment I walked in
The evidence of who had been
Staying there the past three weeks or so
It's a funny thing about cheap motel
And the creatures within that dwell
You just know that mattress is gonna kill your back for tomorrow

CHORUS

A three dollar breakfast who could ask for more
A six pack from the liquor store
We pack our things and we head on down the road
Don't get me wrong I love to roam
But places like that make me long for home
I just want to sleep in my own bed for awhile

CHORUS x 2

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from Live @ The Acoustic Grill, released September 1, 2009
music and lyrics by Tom Savage

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Tom Savage is what one might refer to as a triple-threat. One part truth-telling troubadour, one part death-defying guitar slinger, and one part Country Blues howler. Each facet of his formidable on-stage persona carefully crafted over a 20+ year devotion to the composition and performance of song. Tom is a true believer. A disciple of melody and harmony and tempo and timbre. ... more

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