Higher Ground - Eric Andersen

Stumbled into a backstreet

bar just the other week

Showed my heart to a waitress there

she took a little peek

Sat down at her table

but I guess I was

a little too late I was a little

too late. She said,

«There's someone here

before you,"so I turned

and walked away

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Holy rollin', headin' for the

higher ground. Holy rollin',

I think it’s time I’m

gonna lay it all down

I asked my fortune teller

«could you save me from this rain»

I gave her rhymes and pentacles

she gave me valentines for change

I offered her my broken heart

she offered me a glass

she said «Trouble'll buy ya' nothin'

here, what else do you have?»

Chorus

I wandered through the streets all night

in search of another haunt

A woman in a doorway said,

«Is there somethin' that you want?»

I followed up the back staircase

she took off her dress

she showed me to her body

but she locked up all the rest

Chorus

Can you see the guy before you

was he the dreamer that you knew

He’s lookin' like a lover

but he’s actin' like a fool

The highway keeps on rolling

like it’s never gonna end

and love’ll keep on rollin'

like a spirit in the wind

Chorus