All-In-All - David Buskin

(Editor's Note: At the author's request, we are running these lyrics as they were originally written. Ms. MacKinnon has reworked some of the lines to fit her particular point of view--yes. the folk process in action.)

Well she's pretty enough
She's tall and she's tough
And she lookin' when I turn around
And she smiles when I smile
And we look for a place to sit down

And it's what are you drinkin'
And what are you thinkin'
And baby, you wanna go home?
It's a Saturday night
And you don't want to spend it alone

[Chorus]
All-in-all
I think I'd rather be in love
I think I'd rather be with someone
Who makes me insane
With someone I can't get enough of

All-in-all
I wish that I could fall again
I know it's a game I always lose
But I sure could use
One more chance to win

Well I'm happy I guess
Sometimes more, sometimes less
I get most of the things that I need
And my old married friends
They pretend to be envyin' me

I'm never neglected
But never connected
Always a guest at the meal
I'm not mad or upset
I just tend to forget how I feel

[Repeat Chorus]

[Bridge]
Well it's not like I'm broke
Or I'm hungry
Or out in the rain
I know what I had
And I know what I've got
And I gave up a lot
To be free of the pain

In the hours right after
We're forcing our laughter
And neither believes it, I know
And I give her a kiss while I wish
She had somewhere to go

And tomorrow is Sunday
And after it Monday
And Tuesday and on into time
I don't like what I see about me
At the end of the line

[Repeat Chorus]

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