The Great Unknown

It's friday night and I'm back again, With my old guitar and my trusty grin And a best you don't come in here sign Tatooed on this heart of mine From a dirty brown shag carpet stage I sing my song and I pace the cage Stuck up here in the twilight zone Staring out to the great unknown There's an old Hank Williams figurine Hangin' by a guitar string From the pool chain of the papps blue ribbon sign With a clock that stopped on half past nine Yeah the time ain't changed 'round here in years Same sad stories same old tears Ain't nobody wants to be alone Out here in the great unknown You can find a stool there at the bar Designed to take you no where far They got a mirror back behind the whiskey shelves Where we don't dare look back at ourselves Just past the mens room down the hall Barely hangin' there on a plaster wall A faded sticker on the old pay phone Says welcome to the great unknown It's out beyond a yonder star It's all up in there where you are By some cosmic wind we're blown Out into the great unknown Hopes and dreams and ash and dust It all seems to either rot or rust Souls wrapped up in flesh and bone Heartbeats in the great unknown It's friday night and I'm back again.