Ragtime Willie Cooper - Pool in the Back Bar Lyrics

There's a picture in my wallet
She can't see what it says
There's our song on the radio
But the singer he's dead
And 25 years ago
Just where we are now
We played pool in the back bar
And something happened somehow
Her dress was cotton
Her fingernails were red
But now they look broken
Like an unmade bed
There's Formica on the bar top
Looking like redwood
Her fingers start strumming
Is it something I've said?
There's glasses on the table
But the drinks' all drunk
There might have been laughter
There might have been none
There's pool in the back bar
I can hear them playing
Falling into pockets and rolling
While I wonder what she's been saying
If love is the answer
Then there's something missing
A question is hanging
Like a key on a string
I stare at the air
I move in my seat
I might have said something
As she starts to speak
The walls are all shades of brown
Like the street outside
And the light from the window
Falls through the blinds
There's pool in the back bar
I can hear them playing
Falling into pockets and rolling
While I wonder what she's been saying
There's a picture in her pocket
And an empty lipstick case
There's our song on the radio
And it's taken my place