EVERYBODY LOOKING 072211 - STRICKEN

James Michael Taylor

There was this biker bar called The 2500 Club. Just west of Sylvania on Belknap. On a sign outside it says, “The best little biker bar in Texas.” Guthrie and Rick and I played there long enough to get to feeling pretty much like family.

EVERYBODY LOOKIN’ AND NOBODY LOOKIN’ BACK

VERSE ONE - I was gigging at a biker bar in Fort Worth, Texas
Had a boner for a cute little blond
From her perch behind the bar
She watched a guy with the scar who was
Checkin’ out the girl in Pool Table World
But she was in pursuit of this big hairy dude

Who wouldn’t even loan her the time of day
‘Cause he was busy giving his intentions away
To this quarter poppin’ gal at the juke box, yeah
She was into Johnny Cash. She was hurtin’ real bad

CHORUS - Everybody looking
Nobody looking back

VERSE TWO - So, I sit down at the table with my buddie Rick
We both got an eye on that skinny blond chick
Wipin’ down the bar with her head in the stars
Wet as a frog for this 62 hog
Who just dropped in lookin’ for a man

Who’d never even given him the time of the day
Yeah, he was busy pissin’ his attentions away
On the girl in the corner. She is nobody’s joiner
What a waste of good dick. Good looking Lesbian chick

CHORUS - Everybody looking
Nobody looking back

BRIDGE - All the pictures on the wall trying to keep us together
The rides and the falls, the guts and the glory and the Leather,
Time to kick up the bike and start chasing the wind and the weather
Oh, the girls will come and go but we’ll be buddies forever

VERSE THREE - Little blond says, “Last call. Put your sticks on he wall.
You don’t have to go home but we’re leaving, you all
Everybody otta know if it comes it’s gotta go
So turn off Johnny Cash. Everybody grab some trash.”

CHORUS - Everybody looking
Nobody looking back :I