View from the Stage

There’s sawdust on the floor this is a better gig to play

But a banker owns the joint we have to beg for our pay

We’ve been to Nashville and we can drop a couple names

But we can’t drop our day jobs so pay our weekend games

The view from the stage may never change

Might always be someone trying to arrange

Secret rendezvous they should avoid

While they’re still trying fill a lonesome void

Hell I know that I should act my age

But I can’t get over this view from the stage

Got a family loving woman just as soon that I’d stay home

But I’m a cowboy gypsy poet with a destiny to roam

If you catch me on a bad night I appear near the end of my rope

But when I’m riding tall I’ve got my songs to give me faith and hope

The view from the stage may never change

Might always be someone trying to arrange

Secret rendezvous they should avoid

While they’re still trying fill a lonesome void

Hell I know that I should act my age

But I can’t get over this view from the stage

Well it’s last call now and this ain’t no motel

We sang all of our songs they sold all they could sell

But the view from the stage is still the same

I hear what you’re saying but I don’t recall your name

I had it right here on the tip of my mind

But then I forgot what I’d been trying to find

Hell I know that I should act my age

But I can’t get over this view from the stage

Hell I know that I should act my act

But I can’t get over this view from the stage