A Penny for the Band - Justin Rutledge

Another Shirley Temple

Another Cain and Abel

There's nothing out the window

And nothing on the table

This life is like a set list

Scrawled across the nation

If I miss you at the soundcheck

I'll see you at the station

There's a beast inside of me

And he's not bad company

But he speaks in tongues

I can never understand

He says it's one more show

And a penny for the band

Keep everybody dancing

Keep everybody spending

I know I'm not a good man

But I can keep pretending

You're leaning in the doorway

Your dress is like a dark vale

But I'm not going your way

I'm going back to Parkdale

With a bottle of Burgundy

Where she waits on the balcony

With a northern wish

And a daisy in her hand

To send me all her love

And a penny for the band

There's a beast inside of me

And I miss my family

All these pages and

These stages made of sand

Still it's one more show

And a penny for the band

One more show and a penny for the band