Turnin' Off A Memory

(album: Let Me Tell You About A Song - 1972)

[Spoken:]
Let me tell you about a song
That I wrote especially for my friends with drinking problems
Or maybe I should say my friends with problems enough to drink
Anyway it's just an old theme of a man sitting in a barroom
Trying to drown his past
It's called I'm Turning Off A Memory...

[Sang:]
You can find me in dim lighted barroom
If your coldness should ever turn warm
But the chances of you ever changing
Are as slim as your two loving arms.

So I'm turning off a mem'ry
As quickly as time will allow
I'm turning off a mem'ry
And the wine seems to help me somehow.

If I'm lucky I'll some day forget you
When the wine finally takes full control
It's not much of a future to look to
But I can't stand this pain in my soul.

So I'm turning off a mem'ry
As quickly as time will allow
I'm turning off a mem'ry
And the wine seems to help me somehow.

And the wine seems to help me somehow...