After All Songtext
von David Buskin

I′ll drink almost any port in this here storm
Put myself outside a fifth of it
Thing about a fire, it should keep you warm
Especially when it's you that′s getting lit

So let's have a song for the strummer
Who helped you through the summer
And then turned into a bummer in the fall
Singing "Sometimes you need it, sometimes you try to lead it
It depends on how you read it after all"

Will you then desert me if I anchor here?
Just I've had enough and here we are
How come you don′t remember when you had the fear?
And I was up there shining like a star


So let′s have a song for the sailor
Who tried to be a whaler
But ended up a bailer in the squall
Singing "Sometimes you need it, sometimes you only feed it
It depends on how you read it after all"

Maybe what we're looking for is in this glass
Who knows what the deep down devil drinks?
I had a chance to join him but I let it pass
It′s not as good as everybody thinks

So let's have a song for the singer
Who dressed up like a swinger
Then saw the moving finger on the wall
Writing "Sometimes you need it, sometimes you think you′ve seen it
But you never really beat it after all"

Yeah, after all
Yeah, after all