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Gillie's All Night Diner

from Right Here by Dave Laurence

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On the north end of the city, off of Highway 54,
There’s a cozy little diner, been there thirty years or more.
Good food fast and friendly, every local knows,
They pile it tall, and best of all, they never, ever close.

In a booth there after midnight, a woman turns to stone,
She lives around the corner, but she’s scared of going home.
She wonders how it happened, how it all turned out this way,
And thinks of men, the three of them, who share her life today.

One who holds her hostage, one who holds her heart,
One who holds her secrets cold, a thousand miles apart.
Under cover of the darkness, there’s a whole world here inside,
They’re coming here, from far and near, to set the world aside.

Gillie’s all night diner, it’s your respite from the road,
Get yourself a Coney dog while you’re shaking off the cold.
Gillie’s all night diner, come on and sit a spell,
It’s a little taste of heaven, one mile north of hell.

Well, the waitress brings another to the woman in the booth,
Head hung over her iPhone as she’s searching for the truth.
Waiting for the one to sleep and the other to disappear,
She sends a text, to tell what’s next, to the secret volunteer.

It says, “I’ve got to be moving, I can’t stay here for long,
I’m tired of people saying everything I do is wrong.
All I need’s a change of venue, and I’ll get it all on track,
I’ll be for sure, an entrepreneur, and I’m never looking back.”

She’s gonna throw away the script and change her life today,
For number three is me, you see, and I’m gonna steal her away.
Under cover of broad daylight, I’m gonna make that girl my own,
But not until I get my fill of the taste that tastes like home.

Gillie’s all night diner, it’s your respite from the road,
Get yourself a Coney dog while you’re shaking off the cold.
Gillie’s all night diner, come on and sit a spell,
It’s a little taste of heaven, one mile north of hell.
It’s a little taste of heaven, one mile north of hell.

©2017 David L. Laurence (BMI). Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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from Right Here, released September 22, 2017

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Folksy, but rock solid. Soft with a hard edge. Eclectic, yet familiar. Unpretentious, but confident. Buys his stage clothes in thrift shops.

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