You Never Know

Step into the kitchen and you feel like you're losin’ ground

Spend your life looking for a highway from this town

Sometimes you wonder what this turnin’ world is about

But it's Monday morning and you're just trying to make it out

 

You mama was a dancer and she went by Rosa Lee

She had a painted smile and stockings on her knee

And you watched her dreaming ‘bout what a little girl could be

And you wonder if there’s a sadness you can't see

 

Oh . . . you never know

The hardest part sometimes is admitting so

You made up your mind long years ago

Oh . . . you never know

 

You been working in a diner since 1999

And the man who holds the money keep brushin’ you from behind

Each time you smile you know you're steppin’ back in line

Sometimes you wonder if you're servin’ bread or servin’ time

 

Oh . . . you never know

The hardest part sometimes is admitting so

You made up your mind long years ago

Oh . . . you never know

 

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And you're lookin’ at a little girl walkin' down a dusty road

Got her shoes in her hand and warm sand in her toes

And you wonder out loud just where'd that little girl go

 

Oh . . . you never know

 

Well you're dimmin’ down the lights and turning o’er the open sign

Up to the road into the car you slide

And the streets go by in streams of silver white

You turn a corner and the house sweeps into the lights

 

And you're sittin’ there and you feel like you're holdin’ time

Like sand in your hand or the dream in young girl's eye

Of a woman who's a mother and a dancer taking flight

Sometimes you wonder if you might not go inside. . . .

 

Oh . . . you never know

The hardest part sometimes is admitting so

You made up your mind long years ago

Oh . . . you never know