Vera's Lyrics

You could call this place a dive bar

But that's probably too fine a name

It barely keeps out the rain

It barely keeps out the pain

But it keeps out most the cold

All year round

There's tin foil covering up all the windows

The cue balls missing from the pool

But that don't stop the play

And the light still finds away

To touch each lost soul through that door

I can see her face

Her shuffle dancing with her cane

Filling up another well or call

Let's take the back roads to Vera's

And let the whole countryside hear us

Singin On the Wings of a Snow-White Dove for her

We'll take the shortcut curves through Sleepy Hollow, maybe stop and write a song

About the respite of one neon sign and a ghost town singalong

There ain't no specials ain't no menu

No top-shelf liquor behind the bar

But she'll pick you out a pickled egg

And use a church key to open your next

Old Milwaukee past its prime

She shot nine-ball with a broomstick

She'd run the table and then sweep the floor

She took a spill while she was changing a keg

Thought she'd be done but fuck a broken leg

If she retires it's just for the night

I can see her face

Her shuffle dancing with her cane

Filling up another well or call

Let's take the back roads to Vera's

And let the whole countryside hear us

Singin On the Wings of a Snow-White Dove for her

We'll take the shortcut curves through Sleepy Hollow, maybe stop and write a song

About the respite of one neon sign and a ghost town singalong

When she walked home she walked to the backroom

Slept in a recliner by a wood-burning stove

She'd sit and let the radio play

Sing a prayer of amazing grace

And fall asleep humming a Dolly song

I can see her face

Her shuffle dancing with her cane

Filling up another well or call

Let's take the back roads to Vera's

And let the whole countryside hear us

Singing On the Wings of a Snow-White Dove for her

We'll take the shortcut curves through Sleepy Hollow, maybe stop and write a song

About the respite of one neon sign and a ghost town singalong