Up All Night Lyrics - Beneath The Velvet Sun - Shawn Mullins

Well, Johnny Mae and William J, hitched a ride from sunny L.A. 

With a soldier who'd gone AWOL, stockade bound and they got off 

In the Texas rain and they hopped a southern diesel train 

Headed to Atlanta, my hometown 

Where she danced all night in a go, go bar 

And he tried his best to play bass guitar 

In the absolute worst punk band ever heard 

But she got tired of the Georgia clay 

And a drunk musician who couldn't even play 

So she took a bus to Boston without a word 

He never got to say goodbye and he has to wonder why 

It keeps him up all night, the way she wore her hair 

It keeps him up all night her voice is everywhere 

It keeps him up all night, she's out there 

Searchin' somewhere for somethin' of her own 

Well, old Will kept makin' bad music worse 

But the whiskey and the pills 

Wouldn't quench his thirst no more 

So he stuck a needle in his arm then he lost his band 

He started liftin' shops it didn't take too long 

To get cuffed by the cops and right about now 

He's a workin' on the county farm 

It's never easier to say goodbye and she has to wonder why 

It keeps her up all night the way he held her hand 

It keeps her up all night, he was her only man 

It keeps her up all night, she's out there 

Searchin' somewhere for somethin' of her own 

To get where you need to be, you'll go through anything 

And on your way to be free, you know, love is everything 

Baby, love is everything, it keeps us up all night 

Yes, love is everything, it keeps us up all night 

Yes, love is everything, it keeps us up all night 

We're out there 

Searchin' somewhere, for somethin' of our own 

It keeps us up all night, we're out there 

Searchin' somewhere for somethin' of our own