The Storyteller's Suitcase
I packed my storyteller’s suitcase
With a whiskey bottle,
A notebook, and my songs
I met barstool damsels,
Tom cats working a midnight scandal
Take me home,
And brother, trouble will be coming along
If you’re going to ride
This gypsy boxcar
Town to town singing rhymes
Just when you think
you’re gonna lose yourself
you’ll see your name up on a neon sign
(Chorus)
He packed his suitcase
Whoa-oh, The Storyteller’s making the rounds
Oh, He’s never gonna settle down
Motels, hotels,
2am ringing a stranger’s doorbell
Sleeping like Caesar,
Sleeping in an old barnyard
You’ll meet country stars with mini-bars,
Stowaway women
Laying back in your car
Lovers and brothers
Woven in a midnight dream
[Chorus 2]
If you’re gonna ride
on this poet’s highway
Friendships are how you keep score
A song is just a skeleton key
That can open any palace door
[Bridge]
And the towns they roll by
Strangers faces
You come to know by name
‘Cause every year
They come back again
And again
Spotlight, a sold-out night,
Others so empty
You can’t start a fist fight
Then a crowd of angels
Come waltzin’ in the concert hall
It’s a circus life,
You’re a one man bigtop
The barker, the lion, the flames
You fall into a hotel pillow
Just hopin’ they’ll remember your name