Straight Time

Yeah I’m a sucker for a thrill

I’ll be your man every time

Another one is never too much

Trouble found me by design

I gotta do a little straight time

Can’t you see I’m on the rise

I’m getting fuller in the face

Satan lands another blow

A pony’s kicking at a full heart

Where’s a poor boy gottta go?

Just to do a little straight time

Can’t you see I’m on the rise

I’m just a rodent on a wheel

I’m a puppet on a ragged thread

I’m eleventh in a ten-man line

And I’m putting aside

A little straight time

She was such a pretty thing

It was meeting of the minds

She was just a little too young

But a worldly twenty-five

I gotta do a little straight time

Can’t you see I’m on the rise

I’m just a rodent on a wheel

I’m a puppet on a ragged thread

I’m eleventh in a ten-man line

And I’m putting aside

A little straight time