24 Hours A Day lyrics

Skinny young man
With born again eyes
And a Jesus tattoo on his arm
Leans on the wall
While the traffic goes by
The gas-mart at Fairview and Farm
A rap song pounds
From an `83 Caddy
While he waits on a payphone to ring
Been standing around since a quarter past nine
Still hasn`t heard a thing.

24 hours a day
24 hours a day
Sign says we`re open the man says you pay
24 hours a day.

Backed up on Farm
Carhorns are screaming
Cause some guy`s Suburban is stalled.
He guesses her daddy
Must be back home
Otherwise she`d have called
He thinks to himself
I guess I can`t blame him
It wasn`t so smart what we did
A uniformed cop gets in line with his coffee
Some women yells at her kid.

24 hours a day
24 hours a day
Sign says we`re open the man says you pay
24 hours a day.

(harmonica solo)

Carload of drunks
Pulls up in a hurry
For a six-pack before its too late.
He starts to dial
To leave one more message
Stops and decides just to wait.
Could have been different
And maybe it couldn`t
With some things it`s too late to learn.
Fumes from the gasoline hang in the air
World just continues to turn.

24 hours a day
24 hours a day
Sign says we`re open the man says you pay
24 hours a day.

The skinny young man
With born again eyes
And a Jesus tattoo on his arm
Leans on the wall
While the traffic goes by
A gas-mart at Fairview and Farm
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