All They Wanna Hear

(album: Fish Grease - 2016)

Play that, that, that trailer park song, man about the car, man

I've written songs about love
Songs about war
Beat up cars and old screen doors
Youth and truth
Lies and money
Some of them are sad
And others are funny
And I've sang about sunshine
Sang about rain
Lookin out the window of a big jet plane
Songs about home and this road I'm on
And songs just to find the strength to carry on
I reckon I've written about a million songs so far
Dirty clubs and motel rooms
Trying to be a big rockstar

But all they wanna hear
Is sittin at a bar
You know, that bartender song
The one about crashing that car
So I sing it every night
But I save it for last
And everybody sings along
Might even sign me an autograph

Well I've strained my brain
And tried to search
For great ideas
It just won't work
Complex metaphors, double entendres
Trying to be more than a one hit wonder
Scheming on a rhyme
Skin racking my melon
How long I been doing this
Ain't no tellin
Working like the devil to be avant garde
Well, hell, maybe I just tried too hard
I reckon I've written about a million songs so far
Dirty clubs and motel rooms
Trying to be a big rockstar

But all they wanna hear
Is sittin at a bar
You know, that bartender song
The one about crashing that car
So I sing it every night
But I save it for last
And everybody sings along
Might even sign me an autograph

And I'm not complaining
Not at all, I'm just saying
If I could find a way
To write a million more like that one
Then maybe that drunk guy with all his sloppy friends
You can find at all our shows
Wouldn't be yelling play that trailer park song
We're just two songs in, but who knows

But all they wanna hear
Is sittin at a bar
You know, that bartender song
The one about crashing that car
So I sing it every night
But I save it for last
And everybody sings along
Might even sign me an autograph