Running Out of Tomorrows
By John Stewart
Nick Reynolds, John Stewart

Spoken: Thank ya neighbors... (cough) Bobby Shane mentioned Woody Guthrie before and he certainly is the grandfather of the present day song writers. We mentioned Bob Dylan and Eric Anderson, now we'd like to feature John Stewart singing a song he wrote just before this tour started. It's called, "Running out of Tomorrows".
Thank ya Nick, go change your string... broken string.

Can it really be that long
since I've been home to mama?
Can it really be that long as the letters try to say?
I'm more lonesome right now
than ever I remember.
I'm more lonesome right now
than I was yesterday.

I'm running out of tomorrows.
All the good ol' boys are gone.
I'm running out of tomorrows,
singin' yesterday's song.

Here's another cheap motel
out on 101 to Fresno.
Got the TV turned up loud.
Too much quiet makes me blue.
Once I thought I'd be a doctor,
but I quit school runnin' wild.
There's no one here to sit beside me.
There's nothin' I can really do.

I'm running out of tomorrows.
All the good ol' boys are gone.
I'm running out of tomorrows,
singin' yesterday's song.

I just looked into the mirror.
All my hair is getting thin.
I just looked into the mirror,
where a young man used to be.

And I remembered Mary.
She went and married some young lawyer.
Lord, I remember Mary
was all I ever hope to see.

I'm running out of tomorrows.
All the good ol' boys are gone.
I'm running out of tomorrows,
singin' yesterday's song.