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I have in mind here a bar being emptied of its customers at the end the evening while the staff clean up and stack chairs on tables. Ashtrays are filled to the brim with cigarette ends (I wrote this when it was legal in the UK to smoke in a pub!), the lights are up bright and the music is turned down real low.
But still our morose hero finds time to bore one more member of staff”¦
Apropos Of A Working Day
Give me just one more beer
Soon I’ll be on my way
Give me just one more beer
Shouldn’t have come here today
I wasn’t looking for
Anyone particular
I already had convivial company
I wasn’t looking round
Every time the door was opening
I’d just wait and see
Give me just one more beer
Then I can pay my tab
Vibe me just one more beer
Then you can call a cab
I wasn’t hoping for
A familiar tugging on my sleeve
And a friendly “Hey, and how are you?”
Because I saw a vapour trail
Like a scar across the sky
Made that impossible to do
© 2006 Dave Keir
