For The Girls

Me and my best buddy, Joe, played something nice and slow
For the talent show at Central Valley High
All our buddies in the back did their best not to laugh
But I remember that all the young girls cried
We couldn’t stand within 15 feet of the liquor at the local bar
But Friday nights, Joe played piano and strummed this guitar

CHORUS
And it wasn’t those record execs we were impressing
We didn’t care about self-expression
We weren’t trying to change the world
We always thought that fame was kinda funny
We didn’t give a damn about the money
We always played for the girls

Went to college for my old man, worked all summer and bought a Chevy van
Got a 5-piece band of boys with the same dream
We played triple-A parks and Legion rooms, knocked the cover off the cover tunes
Some rocks and blues and a whole lot of country
Sometimes it cost us more than we were getting paid
But a few screams in we’d start remembering why it was we came

CHORUS

Now got our name in lights and we’re negotiating movie rights
We take chartered flights and they tell us where the gig is
We wrote a book called “The Truth Be Known”, they named a street after us back home
And when Rolling Stone asked us how we did it