From the recording One More Time
Written by Steven Branstetter
Lyrics
Verse 1:
Let me set the scene of a traveling band - five musicians and a worn-out van
Driving all night just to earn our rice and beans
Playin’ every club and honky-tonk, bowling alley and restaurant
South Dakota, Denver, New Orleans
Four long sets, five-night stands, half-drunk owners and crazy fans
Sharing our house with the roaches and the fleas
But it’s the caffeine-fueled, two-lane ride that shocks me when I get home alive
Please, please get me home just one more time
Chorus:
(One more time) get me home alive, (one more time) I’ll nap ‘till we arrive;
(one more time) the drummer’s not drunk, so he can drive,
get me home one more time
Verse 2:
Skipped the weight station outside Ranchettes, state trooper won’t soon forget
Our overloaded, spray-painted Econoline
A snowstorm in Virginia Dale, a flat tire on old Deer Trail,
brakes gave out just 5 miles from home
Interstate 80 at 3am, I-25 in a traffic jam,
Found a dog out near Glenwood Springs
But it’s the caffeine-fueled, two-lane ride that shocks me when I get home alive
Please, please get me home just one more time
Chorus:
(One more time) get me home alive, (one more time) I’ll nap ‘till we arrive;
(one more time) the drummer’s not drunk, so he can drive,
get me home one more time
BRIDGE
Toll road (ain’t got no cash!)
100 miles (ain’t got no gas!)
Booked a show at a drive-thru liquor store
Snare drum (fell off the truck!)
Bass guitar (stolen, what the fuck?!)
Three sets down and still one to go