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The Loneliness of the VIP Room

from Children Live the Fear by Bill White

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I was killing time at the disco bar
Drinking club soda out of a fruit jar
When a woman on the stool next to me
and asked if I was a radio star
I wanted to wince but instead I grinned
and said I made a record once
But it went straight to the bargain bin
If she wanted a copy she could get one for a quarter on EBay
She said that's good enough for me
You might be able to pass for a celebrity
And you can escort me to the VIP room

So I showed the bartender my music union ID
And asked him if he recognized me
He said theres a good possibility
Didnt you sing at the WGBH ice cream festivities?
I said that was me and he lowered the rope
and we descended the stairs to a land beyond hope
After we went through the door
she didnt want to be with me no more
She made a run to the corner where the food was on the trays
And Peter Gabriel was scarfing up the crudite

Elvis costello and roger Mcguinn
Were singing Blowin in the Wind
And I plopped myself down
between Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt
Somebody gave me a pink armband
someone else put a long tall drink in my hand
I felt like a flower that forgot to bloom
In the loneliness of the VIP Room
The hours were passing painful and slow
I would have left but there was nowhere to go
Earthy turned to me and winked her eye
grabbed the inside of my thigh
and said its time for Grace and I to make our appearance
Would you be so kind to run interference?
I didnt really know just what to say
So I stood up and walked away

Then I got into an argument with Sting
Who punched me when I said jazz wasnt his thing
I felt like Dylan's Mr Jones
When in walked two of the Rollling Stones
I think it was Keith who helped me to my feet
But it might have been his brother from Alphabet Street
Things were looking brighte, then boom boom boom
Sting got me evicted from the VIP Room

Now Im back in my old skin
Drinking soda water at the bar again
Grace is flying around the room like a bat
Kitt us pulling monkey men out of a hat
And all of the common people like me
Are basking in the presence of celebrities
But Im still feeling the loneliness of the nobody
in the room where everyone else is somebody
Id rather spend my life singing the blues
Then have my dreams come true in the loneliness of the VIP room

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from Children Live the Fear, released July 17, 2018

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