'Round Midnight - Wes Montgomery

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you Tomorrow I'll miss you Remember I'll always be true And then while I'm away I'll write home every day And I'll send all my loving to you I'll pretend that I'm kissing The lips I am missing And hope that my dreams will come true And then while I'm away I'll write home every day And I'll send all my loving to you All my loving I will send to you All my loving, darling I'll be true Close your eyes and I'll kiss you Tomorrow I'll miss you Remember I'll always be true And then while I'm away I'll write home every day And I'll send all my loving to you All my loving I will send to you All my loving, darling I'll be true All my loving, all my loving ooh All my loving I will send to you

A pale and lonely moon lights the sky in the dark before the dawn I sit here in my room, how I sigh for the day that's come and gone Another lonely day passes by and the new day's comin' on At midnight Tears I've shed today will pause, waiting until tomorrow Dreams of what could become close to me, timidly There's a brand-new day in sight At that time 'round about midnight Life's a game of chance, and you're just one of the minor players Look for what you love, the day to come harbours some Let your eyes put out their light At that time 'round about midnight Every day is gonna bring some sadness Every day is gonna bring some gladness So, take what you can of the glad times Don't measure your pleasure in nickels and dimes Look back on today And you'll know when you have been unhappy Fears done chased away just might have let them have their day Let your spirits stop the fight At that time 'round about midnight Let our hearts take wings 'round midnight, midnight Let the angels sing for your returning Till our love is safe and sound And old midnight comes around I'll think no more about today For in a while, this old day will be yesterday Alone at midnight in my room I sit here in the gloom My dreams take flight 'round 'bout midnight

I slept straight through to eight a. m. That same old lame alarm clock excuse just ain't gonna work again I light a Marlboro for breakfast On my way out the door That's the third day this month I had one too many the night before And judging from the past, it won't be the last It's a free fall when your back's against the wall When you hit rock bottom and the bottom drops out How's a man supposed to stand tall Well, the high life ain't my life I can't walk a line and I damn sure ain't gonna crawl Just living in a free fall With a shovel in my hand and a hammer in my head Right about now I can think of a thousand things I'd rather do instead But I dig in this hole for my dignity I think I finally come to understand working for the man ain't working for me I can only take so much My only way is up From a free fall when your back's against the wall When you hit rock bottom and the bottom drops out How's a man supposed to stand tall Well, the high life ain't my life I can't walk a line and I damn sure ain't gonna crawl Living in a free fall It's a free fall when your back's against the wall When you hit rock bottom and the bottom drops out How's a man supposed to stand tall Well, the high life ain't my life I can't walk a line and I damn sure ain't gonna crawl Just living in a free fall Free fall

On the chain link in the backyard Hit the home run Who's gonna go get it? Daddy's Chevrolet on the tailpine Creepin' upsides Won't ever forget it On the screws of a screen door Tina on the school board If I had to paint the place I grew up I think I color it rust Yeah, we got a blue sky, black top and some fields of gold White cotton poppin' up where the green grass grows This red-light town wouldn't shine like it does Yeah, if it didn't have a little rust Up and down that water tower Rust wrapped around that barbed wire We don't need no paint trying to cover it up Ain't nothing wrong with a little bit of rust It was only whole nails, boat dock Number 700, bottom of the tackle box Auburn hair falling down in a flat bed God even put it in a sunset We got a blue sky, black top and some fields of gold White cotton poppin' up where the green grass grows This red-light town wouldn't shine like it does Yeah, if it didn't have a little rust Up and down that water tower Rust wrapped around that barbed wire We don't need no paint trying to cover it up Ain't nothing wrong with a little bit of rust Nothing 'round here stays new forever Time goes by So does the weather The best things I know get a little better with rust Yeah, we got a blue sky, black top and some fields of gold White cotton poppin' up where the green grass grows This red-light town wouldn't shine like it does Yeah, if it didn't have a little rust Up and down that water tower Rust wrapped around that barbed wire And we don't need no paint trying to cover it up Ain't nothing wrong with a little bit of rust Up on that Massey Tractor Rust, yeah, man, on it it don't matter That welcome sign is something I love Yeah, it's the color of rust Ain't nothing wrong with a little bit of rust