met her at a friendly little bar down along the coast she said it was her birthday so we had us a nice little toast drove around for a while smoked a few cigarettes took her back to my place she slipped off her party dress she sat for a while on the edge of the bed just talkin loose change in my pocket loose change in my pocket pint of gin in my boot cuff i m drivin for a drink and a dance sittin on the next stool miss a little time on her hands yeah i knew she was trouble but trouble sure was lookin fine and when i pulled her close what i knew kinda slipped my mind we lay in bed and watched the moon come up crawling loose change in my pocket loose change in my pocket i pour another drink wait for the night to get through stars are burning in that black void so far away and blue now i m sittin at a red light i feel somethin tickin way down the night s moving like a slow train crawling through this shithole town got my bags packed in the back and i m tryin to get goin again but red just goes to green and green goes red and then then all i hear is the clock on the dash tick tocking loose change in my pocket loose change in my pocket loose change in my pocket loose change in my pocket