A Couple of  Lifetimes Ago
©J. D. Carroll
Creative Ventures Music

He was sittin' at the counter 
	 
	of a broken down diner
                                           
drinkin' coffee that was blacker than black.
 
The neon sign was arcin'
	 
	the waitress was a whiner
                             
and the cook had a cigarette hack.

"What dragged you into our corner of hell?"
	                                                
	The waitress grumbled as she refilled his cup.
                         
He looked over the brim, gave a narrow grin
	                                                     
	and said, "I just stopped by to see what was up."
                
"I'm sure you won't recognize me
	                             
	My clothes have changed,  I  know.
                                              
But I'd come to this  place                    after the show
	                    
	A Couple of Lifetimes Ago."

"Yea, I'd come to this place     after the show
	                                    
	A Couple of Lifetimes Ago."

The jukebox started playing 
	as she walked through the door. 
A song about a long-legged babe.
 
Everyone was watching 
	as she walked across the floor. 
High maintenance was her stock and trade.
 
"Give me the best you've got and make a quick, 
I don't like to wait."
She looked down the counter at the coffee cup 
And said, “Oh, its you.  I can't believe you're straight." 
	"Yyou know her?" the waitress gasped,  
	Coffee Cup let no emotion show. 
	"She's just a  girl I used to know 
	A Couple of Lifetimes Ago."
		"She's just a girl I used to know 
		A Couple of Lifetimes Ago."

Not much conversation.
 	Nothing to be said.
Someone cracked an off-color joke.
High Maintenance was laughing.
Coffee shook his head.
But everyone was listening when he spoke,
“I can laugh at our former situation,
I'm glad that you can too.
It would be sad if we forgot about what we had
"Cause I know I’ll never forget about you.”
"I remember the night we broke up
You said you wanted to fly solo.
     	Well, it seems you haven't flown very far
   	From a Couple of Lifetimes Ago.
  		It seems you haven't flown very for
   		From a Couple of Lifetimes Ago."

The pause went on forever
 	The cook prepared her order
He turned and said, quite perturbed,
 "You two were burnin' brightly
 	when you danced along the border
of the real and the really disturbed.
Now you're like two icebergs floating in the ocean
Only touching when you collide.
"Is that a crime," the waitress whined.
"It's just sad," the cook replied.
	Coffee Cup stood up, payed his check.
	High Maintenance purred as he turned to go,
	"You want to pick up where we left off
	A Couple of Lifetimes Ago?"
		"You feel like picking up where we left off
		A Couple of Lifetimes Ago?"

Coffe Cup was leaving 
	with no thought of revival
When he stopped, turned to her and said,
"What makes you think
	 we'd have a chance at survival
More likely one of us would end up dead."
"You're both dying anyway." said the cook
As he lit up a smoke.
"You should chill and give us all a thrill,
push it all in and go for broke."
	"We can't do that," said Coffe Cup,
	"Although, I'm sure you'd all love the show,
	I've grown too young for that heart attack 
	from A Couple of Lifetimes Ago."
	"I've grown too young for that heart attack 
	from A Couple of Lifetimes Ago."

                                                                 
			Life rolls like a highway.
	                                                   
				Crossroads come along.
			                    
			You have to choose which ones you take
		                                                                          
				and decide if they were right or they were wrong.
					                                      
					You have to choose which ones you take

				and decide if they were right or they were wrong.