Midnight Poet (Lowdown in Livonia, MI)

Last night out in Livonia The jukebox stood me up Willie Nelson on the way So was a little Rush But the barman taking orders Stuck in a couple dimes And skipped past all my songs Even "Always On My Mind" And I thought of you like I always seem to do You're the anxious orange colour That hovers in each night When the bright lights from the highway Block the stars' shine in the sky I always seem to find you Like a lamp that remains lit As I stumble forth a midnight poet As I stumble forth a midnight poet Last weekend was a wedding Down Hastings County way For an old musician buddy I knew from my blossom days Another friend came with a secret He had plans to get engaged On a big trip with his girlfriend Or I suppose now fiancée And I thought of you like I always seem to do You're the anxious orange colour That hovers in each night When the bright lights from the highway Block the stars' shine in the sky I always seem to find you Like a lamp that remains lit As I stumble forth a midnight poet As I stumble forth a midnight poet Open up the stables That's one well-behaved horse Home here in the city Or more like this big town When the time is right, not morning or night Speed River slows right down The moon don't bother showing I can't bother with the bed So I crack a sparkling water And bust wide my writing pad And I think of you like I always seem to do You're the anxious orange colour That hovers in each night When the bright lights from the highway Block the stars' shine in the sky I always seem to find you Like a lamp that remains lit As I stumble forth a midnight poet As I stumble forth a midnight poet