All I Need Is One

One tape in the deck

One way to connect (all I need is one)

One moment alone

One reason to roam

One place I call home (all I need is one)

One tick on the clock

One trick up my sleeve

One thing to believe (all I need is one)

One person to love

One verse and one prayer

For one person who cares (all I need is one)

So put one hand in the air

It used to be I’d get afraid and I’d drive

Going forward’s always been the only place I can hide

With no direction I would speed a hundred miles down the coast

Until I lose the ghost that’s chasing me but never arrive

I know the night’s scary, but we’re alive and the pipe’s cherry

And I’ve got a stack of papers like a library

I’m driving seeking a beacon of light freakishly

All I needed was a speaker that might speak to me

But my CD system is so janky a cone dangles

And it dances on its chord like it’s Bo Jangles

You can work it if you hold it at a low angle

But when the bass hits it grows tangled

Come on right speaker! I’ll take everything you give me

But don’t pity me, there’s people living on a single kidney

In my shitty car I’m living large and mashing through my city

Sitting pretty I know

That I’m ready to go

For beautiful babies in Vegas on their last chip

For all my ninth life kittens hittin’ catnip

For heavy drinkers thinking they were never jack shit

You’re thinking that’s it, but hit a backflip

You got a cracked rib or, maybe a bad liver

You got a bad hip or even a bad temper

But if it’s last supper, one legged mad leper

Put on that glass slipper, you ain’t no half stepper

This ain’t no last breath, it’s only one collapsed lung

We’re holding up the bank with nothing but a cap gun

Down to your last blank

Down to my last drop

Up in the gas tank

We better have fun

Time isn’t a sacred cow

And I’m willing to take it down to the final minute or second, milking my last one

Going up for a take and I’m itching for action

All I need is one

I should remind myself that

All I need is one