Ballad of a Strip Club Bouncer (revisited)
Written by Mike Laughlin
Mike-Acoustic Guitar, Vocals; Mark Bennett-Percussion; Don Richmond-Bass; Tony Schueller-Acoustic Guitar

She walks onto the stage and starts to dance
All the guys in this place make me ashamed that I'm a man

I look her in the eye, before I look away
It's just another night, another start of our work day

Tell me, where do you go?
You seem so far away
The woman you are up there is not the woman that I know
Tell me, where do you go?

Some nights after work, she'll ask me for a ride
We'll sit and talk in her kitchen, sometimes until sunrise

I get to thinking, maybe I could take her away
If I was a better man, if she wanted to be saved

Tell me, where do you go?
You seem so far away
The woman you are up there is not the woman I've come to know
Tell me, where do you go

Like a Rolls Royce coming down a small town street
They're all looking at you now, but I don't want to see
This other person that you become
To sell yourself to all these creeps and these bums

I guess I bought into that dream myself
And dressed it up as something else
The only thing that I need to know
Tell me honey, where do you go?
I could use a place to hide myself
Where do you go?


 

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Mike Laughlin