well it ain t home but it ll have to do for a while got a fold down bed two windows on the parking lot three plates in the kitchenette a table and chair where i can eat a little black and white tv a shower stall and a bathroom sink and one two drawer nightstand barely enough room to be a man and on that nightstand sits a photograph of my wife and kids remindin me of how good it was and right now how bad it is beside it there s a coffee cup where i keep my wedding ring and stuff and some nights it still keeps me up how i got where i am funny how a man s life can be reduced to one nightstand on the fifth of last november on a business trip in denver the airport cancelled all the flights we were snowed in strangers alone for the night she said hi i m angie and i m from boston would you drink a beer with me if i bought em so i hit the hotel bar with her figured what would it hurt sittin on the bed leanin gainst the wall with a bible and a gun one of them was gonna save me the only question was which one so i got down on my shakin knees asked the lord forgive me please dropped the gun and grabbed my keys that picture and my wedding band funny how a man s life can all come down to one nightstand one nightstand one nightstand