Five Minutes-Gretchen Peters

[ti:Five Minutes] [ar:Gretchen Peters] [al:Hello Cruel World] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Five Minutes - Gretchen Peters [00:00.02] [00:23.74]I've got five minutes to sneak a cigarette [00:32.36]Five minutes to myself [00:37.74]Back behind the screen door of Andy's luncheonette [00:43.42]And I ain't got time to worry 'bout my health [00:51.36]My boss Andy says I smoke myself to death [00:57.55]Andy he reminds me some of you [01:03.99]Back when you were Romeo and I was Juliet [01:09.92]West Texas Capulet and Montague [01:14.24] [01:17.67]Now I don't think too much about you anymore [01:25.17]We weren't much more than kids [01:29.67]It was nearly twenty years ago [01:33.55]I shut and locked that door [01:37.93]Now I've got five minutes [01:43.49]Not much time to reminisce [01:46.30] [01:59.57]Most nights I come home from work and I pour a glass of wine [02:05.82]Sometimes it's three or four before I stop [02:13.01]And Jessie makes a sandwich if I sleep through suppertime [02:19.14]And she leaves me on the couch to sleep it off [02:26.73]Now Jessie just turned 17 and she's wild as she can be [02:33.97]And there ain't nothin' I can do [02:39.55]Last weekend she ran off to meet a boy in Tennessee [02:47.93]Just like I used to run to you [02:51.68] [02:53.99]I gave her hell when she came home this afternoon [03:01.11]Mascara runnin' down her face [03:06.62]Seems like history repeats itself [03:10.68]And it ain't up to you [03:15.18]And in five minutes [03:21.36]Your whole life can change [03:23.80] [03:36.72]Andy he's good to me [03:39.33]And I can see it in his eyes [03:44.65]He'd love to take your place [03:50.34]But somethin' deep inside me [03:53.77]Just withers up and dies [03:56.39]To make love to him [03:58.71]And only see your face [04:00.96] [04:04.21]Somehow I've let myself go gently down the stream [04:11.46]A fine example I have set [04:16.65]Between the working and the livin' [04:20.53]And the ghosts that haunt my dreams [04:25.77]I've got five minutes [04:30.71]And I'm gonna smoke this cigarette