broadway blues

$14.10

My shoes boast down the Broadway St
The rain picks up and so does my pace
With an umbrella like a carousel
$14.10 and some time to waste

I hustle cross-legged into a vinyl store
The cash registers start taking bets
I ask the clerk for his favourite record
He tells me what he spends on unlit cigarettes

I duck and cover in a local saloon
Challenge the devil to a game of pool
I’m a wharf rat with a Cheshire grin
The devil’s drunk and forgets all the rules

The pretty honey on the barroom floor
All class and candy-apple lips
I’m incognito and but a breath away
She’s a total stranger but I love her to bits

The jukebox is making conversation
And I talk back with the tap of my feet
The rain picks up and so does my pace
Soon I’m doing freestyle down Main Street

The perfect view of an inebriated palette
I chose to colours that didn’t suit
I’m your shadow in a raven black night
Rain cleanses but words pollute

I’m sitting lonesome in a candlelit diner
Reassurance in a floral print
It’s raining hammers, it’s raining nails
Now I’ve enough hardware to fill a toolkit

One more for the road ahead
One more for heaven’s sake
I catch a ferry back to my halfway home
My dreams are ripples in a still lake

My shoes boast down the Broadway St
The rain picks up and so does my pace
With an umbrella like a carousel
$14.10 and some time to waste