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Right This Way

by Richard Oberacker

on I Hope This Helps (2019)

[DONNY]
There is a train, it leaves the station a quarter after five
That is direct from Union Terminal
Right there in Collar Square
A quarter after five and where does it arrive?
At grand Central Station
The Cleveland Limited of New York Central Railroad
A first class full with cars
For big time movie stars

And we're gonna take one
Don't care how much
Maybe a fortune but it's close enough to touch

I see it all
The leather seat, the steak we'll eat
Then the train conductors call
They'll say "Right this way
We reserved this just for you
You've been waiting for this day
It's the least that we can do"

"Let me take your bags my friend
You've been carrying them for far too long
Troubled times are at an end
And we're waiting to hear your song
It's a privilege sir may I say right this way"

And in times square
The Hotel Astor stands eleven stories high
A first class grand hotel
The lobby's in a movie that I saw last month as well
Lee Marvin and Clint Walker
And on the top- a rooftop garden
With a bandstand in the sky
Cream of the crop
Where doors will swing and Ellen sings and I swear
Someday song will hide

They'll say "Right this way, we reserved this just for you
You've been waiting for this day
its the least that we can do
You've arrived at last my friend
You've been fighting for far too long"

After bunks on cargo ships
And after trenches in the rain
And after running for cover
While dodging the flack
And three years and eight months
I'll fight my way back

[BAND MEMEBERS]
And losing my faith

[DONNY]
While busting my ass

I think that we are entitled to travel first class, don't you?
Whatever it is, whatever it takes
Whatever bookings we can get we take them all
If there's a club in town where we can play a set
We are not finished yet

[BAND MEMBERS]
There's liquor dives and party rooms
And be eight holes I bet

[DONNY]
That's right

[BAND MEMBERS]
This challenge will be met
We'll fight for ourselves now

And all of the wrongs will be made right this way

He'll say right this way
After all that we've been through
We've been waiting for this day
That's the least that they can do
You've arrived at last my friend
We've been fighting for far too long
Troubled times are at an end
And they're waiting to hear our song

[BAND & JULIA]
You can bet we intend to stay
Right this way