Derek Spears

You slept right by the yogurt hut on a painted curb
Wearing nothing but some cut-offs and a muscle shirt
And at 5AM the donut girls came quietly to work
When they slid the trays and banged the bowls
You woke up with a jerk

Thirty-two ounce soda to start the day off right
Every now and then remembering little things about last night
Hold on, take five, check out the fox in the Corvette
Then you said, "You know it don't get no better than that"

He spent all the money on an ornate waterbed
It had a carving of a tiger right above his head
And he's embarrassed of the fact that he works at Pizza Shack
He says he made 90K a year before he hurt his back
And the money his sister owes him
His cousin has but he's in jail
There's all these checks that should be arriving
Any day now in the mail

But mysteriously the checks won't show
And the sticky boombox by the door
Will end up getting sold once more
For a lot less than before