Cal Smith - Between Lust & Watching TV (1974) Lyrics

Cal Smith
Miscellaneous
Between Lust & Watching TV (1974)
The life that I’m seeking is not in this bar where I’m sitting
But it’s sure ain’t at home where the one that I’m married to’s knitting
Happiness may not be here drinking beer, feeling it go to my head
But it ain’t back at home where she’s putting in curlers and rollers and dressing for bed

What I’m looking for ain’t the blonde in the corner who’s winking
But it sure ain’t my wife who devoted her life to dumb thinking
Happiness surely still lives in this world and somewhere it’s waiting for me
And I’m know that it must be somewhere between lust and sitting home watching TV

Somewhere between Playboy magazine and next Tuesday night’s PTA
Somewhere between a honky-tonk queen and what all the dog did today
If a wife and a lover could be one of the same what a beautiful world this would be
And there would be us somewhere between lust and sitting home watching TV

My wife’s a good cook but a man can’t exist on just bread
And what I’m hungry for is the one thing I ain’t being fed
I haven’t been shopping but there’s lot of bargains walking through town tempting me
And a body could rust on a diet of lust and sitting home watching TV

Somewhere between Playboy magazine and next Tuesday night’s PTA
Somewhere between a honky-tonk queen and what all the dog did today
If a wife and a lover could be one of the same what a beautiful world this would be
And there would be us somewhere between lust and sitting home watching TV