Visitor Songtext
von Greg MacPherson

The city sometimes is a backhanded invitation
It′s all just sitting there waiting for a man knows where it's at
But if you want in there or anywhere you gotta be ready to pay for it
There ain′t nothing that a poor man knows much better than that

I came up from the east coast following a woman that I met back home
She was the kind of girl motivate a man beyond himself
A long year living in a rundown basement suite with nothing
I tried looking for work and then I tried looking for someone else

The way you're looking at me

You never know who you'll turn out to be until you get there

I did a couple years working nights at a warehouse job I hated
I did a couple more serving drinks
To people with more money than sense
I ran up quite a bill down at the bank
Yeah I probably should′ve paid it
In a city like this it′s a wonder that I even paid my rent


I fell in with the wrong kind of crowd
Who knows, maybe I'd been out looking
It′s hard living without when the good
Life's laughing right in your face
It sits there with its long legs crossed
Saying you should but you know you shouldn′t
You stand there long enough, you'd do anything for a taste

You′re looking at me

You never know who you'll turn out to be until you get there

All along, yeah, some part of me
Might've been wrong but I never noticed

This one night I made a call to a woman
Got dressed up, went out drinking
Things had gotten out of hand by then
And I was in a little over my head
Someone offered me some money and in
Retrospect I guess I wasn′t thinking

In a city like this it′s a wonder that I didn't just end up dead

You′ve heard these stories all before
Yeah, my own version's not much better
An hour in a spotlight, an evening in a road, a minute in a line
It′s not where you're at my friend, it′s
Who you are there that really matters

And I'm going back to Nova Scotia just as soon as I serve my time

The way you're looking at me

Yeah, you never know who you′ll turn out to be until you get there


All along, yeah, some part of me
Might′ve been wrong but I never noticed

The way you're looking at me

Yeah, you never know who you′ll turn out to be until you get there