Once Is Enough

I could sit in this barn singing all night long

Trying to remember the words to a simple song

I heard you sing one time I wish I could hear it again

Maybe once is enough

We’re making tracks you said, the footprints tell you so

I guess I knew that I’d be staying I guess you knew you’d have to go

I heard you sing one time and I wish I could hear again

Maybe once is enough

He wrote a song for his mother at the age of 63

Wrapped it with a ribbon put it under the Christmas tree

I heard that song one time I wish I could hear it again

But maybe once is enough

Booze, pills, and bibles and a war we couldn’t win

Put a tombstone every mile now, the angels’ll hear them sing

I heard that song one time I wish I could hear it again

Maybe once is enough

Maybe once maybe once maybe once

I could sit in this barn singing all night long

Trying to remember the words to a simple song

I heard you sing one time I wish I could hear it again

Maybe once is enough

Maybe once maybe once just once

©2023 Billy Conway / Elmer's Lid Music