A Place To Stay

Lyrics:
Table Top Two-Step

The neon sign's buzzin’, it's Friday night
Boots on the sawdust, feeling just fine
Jukebox is loud, got a beer in my hand
Didn’t expect what was about to land

She saunters in with a glint in her eye
Cowboy boots and a skirt yay high 
With a stomp and a clap she starts to sway,
Every head in the place turns her way

She’s the queen of the barroom, stealing the show
Hops on a table, lets it all go
Heads are turning, jaws hit the floor
She does the table top two-step 
And the crowd yells for more

She jumps down laughing, drags me onto the floor
We circle the room like we’ve done this before
Crowd’s hootin’ and hollerin’, can’t get enough
That sassy girl is struttin’ her stuff

She’s the queen of the barroom, stealing the show
Hops on a table, lets it all go
Heads are turning, jaws hit the floor
She does the table top two-step 
And the crowd yells for more

The bouncer shrugs; the bartender grins
This ain’t the first time this gal’s been in
Friday night and she’s here again
Blows into the bar like a hurricane

She’s the queen of the barroom, stealing the show
Hops on a table, lets it all go
Heads are turning, jaws hit the floor
She does the table top two-step 
And the crowd yells for more

She does one last twirl around the dance floor
Then with a wave of her hat she’s out the door
I’m willin’ to bet, not many’ll forget
That gal and her table top two-step

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In “Email Recall Blues,” the abrupt click of a “send” button on a late Sunday night captures the cold efficiency of mass firings by email—“Big bold letters said you’re outta sight”—mirroring how the Trump administration laid off over 275,000 federal workers in early 2025, often via impersonal electronic notices. The song’s later plea—“Now they’re draggin’ us back through the wire”—echoes the real-world scramble to reinstate essential personnel when vital functions ground to a halt, as the administration reversed layoffs for hundreds of health and safety workers at agencies like NIOSH just ahead of congressional hearings. By framing this cycle of dismissal and recall as a messy “big ol’ mess they couldn’t foresee,” the lyrics indict leaders who treated public service roles as disposable, only to realize too late that their “house of cards” depended on the very employees they’d cast aside.

LYRICS 

[Verse]
Boss man clicked send on a Monday night
Big bold letters said you're outta sight
Packed our desk up in a cardboard square
Tipped our hats and got out of there

[Verse 2]
We were sipping coffee watching the news
Who knew chaos was the job they'd choose
Servers crashed and lines went wild
Ran the country like a reckless child

[Chorus]
Now they're draggin' us back through the wire
Emailing like we’re the fuel for their fire
A big ol' mess they couldn’t foresee
Turns out they can’t run it without folks like me

[Verse 3]
They thought the wheels would spin on their own
Now they’re lost without their worker drone
Paid consultants couldn’t call the shots
All the brains left the parking lot

[Bridge]
Oh the irony tastes like sweet champagne
When power trips flow straight down the drain
Guess sometimes you need the ones you scoffed
To stop your house of cards from falling off

[Chorus]
Now they’re begging us back through the wire
Lighting inboxes like a frantic pyre
Turns out they need our sweaty sleeves
To fix the system they don’t believe

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Lyrics by John Schofield turned into songs with the help of his ai-band Amigos Imaginarios. Many different genre - from country to jazz. These songs are produced in order to demonstrate what can be done with John's lyrics.
John Schofield won the lyrics sections of UK Songwriting contest in 2020 and 2021, finalist in the following two years.