One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) Lyrics

Well, it′s quarter to three
There's no one in the joint
It′s just you and me
So set 'em up Joe
I've got a little story I think you should know
We′re drinking my friends
We′ll drink to the end of life's brief episode
We′ll drink to the end
Of life's brief episode

Make it one for my baby
And one for the road

Well, I know the routine
Just drop another dollar
In life′s big machine
I'm feeling so bad
Can′t you make the music
Easy and sad?

I could tell you a lot
But I've gotta be
True to my code
Make it one for my baby
And one for the road

Now, you'd never know it
But Joe, I′m a kind of poet
I′ve got a lot of things
I'd love to say
So now I′m feeling gloomy
Please listen to me
Till it's tucked away

Oh, well that′s how it goes
And Joe, I guess you're getting anxious to close
So thanks for the cheer
I hope you didn′t mind me
Bending your ear

But this torch that I've found
Joe, it's gotta be drowned
Or I think I′d explode
Make it one for my baby
And another one for the road

That long and lonesome road
It′s so goddamn lonesome
It's so goddamn lonesome
It′s so goddamn lonesome
Oh, it's so lonesome
That long and lonesome road

What about you back there, is that it?
Come on, it′s a good song
You just wait until you reach my age, darling
I'll tell you what, fellas
When I′m confronted with a bunch of A-S-S-H-O-L-E-S like this
I wanna search 'em, search 'em, get ′em, spot ′em and destroy 'em