Guitar Man - Bread

Well, I quit my job down at the car wash Left my mama a goodbye note By sundown, I'd left Kingston With my guitar under my coat I hitchhiked all the way down to Memphis Got a room at the YMCA For the next three weeks, I went huntin' them nightclubs Just lookin' for a place to play Well, I thought my pickin' would set 'em on fire But nobody wanted to hire a guitar man Well, I nearly 'bout starved to death down in Memphis I run outta money and luck So I bought me a ride down to Macon, Georgia On a overloaded poultry truck I thumbed on down to Panama City Started checkin' out some o' them all night bars Hopin' I could make myself a dollar Makin' music on my guitar I got the same old story at them all night piers There ain't no room around here for a guitar man We don't need a guitar man, son So I slept in the hobo jungles Roamed a thousand miles of track 'Til I found myself in Mobile Alabama At a club they call Big Jack's A little four-piece band was jammin' So I took my guitar and I sat in I showed 'em what a band would sound like With a swingin' little guitar man Show 'em, son So if you ever take a trip down to the ocean Find yourself down around Mobile Make it on out to a club called Jack's If you got a little time to kill Just follow that crowd of people You'll wind up out on his dance floor Diggin' the finest little five-piece group Up and down the Gulf of Mexico Guess who's leadin' that five-piece band Well, wouldn't ya know, it's that swingin' little guitar man Guitar man

Well, I woke to the rise, sun going down Still taste the whiskey, fresh on my mouth Hot cup of coffee, smoke in my hand Another day in the life of a guitar man La de da Well last night was a good night as I reach in my jeans Crumpled up ones, a few tens in between And a red head named Annie, she's still fast asleep Made me make her a promise, she knows I can't keep La de da Time to fire up that two tone bucket of rust Throw my amp and my case in the back of my truck Breathe in my freedom with the windows rolled down Forty six miles 'til the next nameless town La de da Well, the place is still empty when I walk in the door Stench from the beer, spilling up through the floor Give a nod to sweet Lisa, she mixes the drinks Life's been hard on her, but she's been good to me La de da Off in the shadows Stands a stool and a stage Many souls before me were put on display I take one last breath, time to pay some more dues Won't add up to nothing but tips and cheap booze Yeah, the fruits of my labor's when the crowd sings along Nothing short of a savior, I go home alone I'm an empty, faceless, spotlight mic stand I'll getcha high, getcha low I'm the guitar man, yeah Well they'll ask for more love songs and I'll play with a smile To help them hold on or forget for a while They can fill up that jukebox with a week's worth of pay But I can't feel their happy and I can't feel their pain, no No drums, no pianos, no sweet harmonies It's all in a song and it's all on me Won't find nothing fancy I'm a tired one man band I'm the picking and grinning guitar man Yeah the fruits of my labor's when the crowd sings along Nothing short of a savior, I go home alone I'm an empty, faceless, spotlight mic stand I'll getcha high, I'll getcha low, I'm the guitar man Yeah Well I had me a pretty baby, thought she was the one But she soon grew tired of this love on the run She said she felt second, told me I had to choose She's back in Georgia and I'm there with you The end of the night, we'll all be best friends Then strangers 'tiI roll through town again I'll yell out, "hey Lisa, something cold in a can" One for the road for the guitar man Yeah the fruits of my labor's when the crowd sings along Nothing short of a savior, still I go home alone I'm an empty, faceless, spotlight mic stand I'll getcha high, getcha low, I'm the guitar man I'll play 'em fast, I'll play 'em slow, I'm the guitar man Yeah

I wanted love so very bad that I could almost tasted it And so I gave mine all to you And hoped you would not wast it I laid awake the whole night long And wondered was I wrong But when you woke and touched my face I knew that I belonged Belonging to someone I find is very necessary The load is lighter on your mind When someone helps to carry And even though I'm strong enough To make it on my own I would not even care to try To live my life alone For if I lived my life alone With no one to belong to There'd be no one to pledge my heart Or sing my song of love to My melodies would soon dry up And the words would leave me too It all would come to pass if I Could not belong to you I wanted love so very bad that I could almost taste it And when I gave mine all to you I knew you would not wast it