No You Don't (feat. Greg MacPherson)

Street lights headlights smoke lights blinking

None of us thinking straight

First warm night here after seven months

Everybody out looking for a chance to take

Women downtown from the small towns, they're riding for it

The kids lined up for the last bus, they're riding for it

And I see you off in the smoke of the smoke machine

Your eyes are flashing

Hair slicked back your clothes all black like a late stage Johnny Cash

And I see your mouth is moving, arms are moving, legs are moving, you move in close

That one song comes on hard

So loud that I stop, you stop

I lean in slow and say I think maybe the City got it right this time

The music, the strangers, the hope for something more

More than pulling on your coat and telling your friends goodnight

Maybe someone finally saying - no you don't

People say...

No, I say that you need that one night out

One night not thinking about not working

Four, five, six hours as yourself

Friends out taking some chances

Wearing some colour, put some makeup on

We talking, laughing, drinking, dancing

Saying what you mean for once

And people with no style, out riding for it

Their jacked-up mat-black trucks, out riding for it

Radio blasting, cast miscasted, random, badly timed

No CPSD

No HD-CCTV on the line up outside

You think well shit, maybe the City got it right this time

The music, the strangers, the hope for something more

More than pulling on your coat and telling your friends goodnight

Maybe someone finally saying - no you don't