David Kauffman & Eric Caboor - Midnight Willie lyrics

Behind the old man's eyes There's a story on the brain And inside every bottle There's the whistle of a train A night in stir is nothing more Than shelter from the rain He hopped abord a westbound Back in nineteen sixty-three It jumped the tracks at midnight Outside of Kankakee No harm done, a hobo's legs Torn off below the knees Midnight Willie... Won't you sing that song again Midnight Willie... Won't you sing that song again He sits there in the shadows Of the hotel Monterey And every quarter on the step Is ten more songs he'll play I got no use for small change In my pocket anyway Midnight Willie... Won't you sing that song again Midnight Willie... Won't you sing that song again "There's nothin' more to livin', boy Than everything you've ever done If fate don't catch you standin' still It'll catch you on the run Yeah, It'll catch you on the run Me, I'm just another settin' sun I'm just another settin' sun..." And when the day is over And the town has gone to bed He crawls down to the corner For some juice to line his head Running dry out on the skids A man could wake up dead Behind the old man's eyes There's a story on the brain And in that broken bottle You can hear a westbound train A hobo dies out on the skids A quarter to his name Midnight Willie... Won't you sing that song again Midnight Willie... Won't you sing that song again