Lyrics to Offstage Lines

Why don't I ever see any old punks

I guess they change their minds or die

Beaten by the greeting of "enchante"

From the girls who read Oscar Wilde

Well I was always one of a serious sort

But I let the comic show me around

No he didn't laugh much but boy did he try

And over time I grew frightened of the sound



Now I searched the needle

And I bide my time

And I waited patiently

For offstage lines

The things that you put by

Aren; t easily won

And your favorite songs of Texas

Are the ones you can't hum

So hide all your daughters, buckle your sons

Cause we'll sure be skewering your insides

We'll be having all the fun



By the time she found me the indians had crowned me

The king of acoustic guitar

I couldn't play too well I would hurt like hell

From the callous, the blister, the scar

She was the epitaph of fashion hoarding love like rations

We'd be digging til' we found bone

I still couldn't find a line I still couldn't keep time

But it was better than being alone



Now I searched the needle

And I bide my time

And I waited patiently

For offstage lines

The things that you put by

Aren; t easily won

And your favorite songs of Texas

Are the ones you can't hum



Now I searched the needle

And I bide my time

And I waited patiently

For offstage lines

The things that you put by

Aren; t easily won

And your favorite songs of Texas

Are the ones you can't hum

So hide all your daughters, buckle your sons

Cause "loose lips sink more than ships"

Will be the headline that runs



Leave your car at the station

Take the train into town

You see we don't solve your problems here

We just work a way around



We just work a way around

We just work a way around

With the lost and found

We just work a way around

We just work a way around

We just work a way around

With the lost and found

We just work a way around

We just work a way around

We just work a way around

With the lost and found

We just work a way around

We just work a way around