Tonight I`ll Take What I Can Get

I`ve got my eye on top shelf liquor, <br>With taste so smooth it <br>Hits you quicker. <br>But you`ve only got the well. <br><br>And I`ve got an eye for top tier women <br>With legs so long they go straight to heaven, <br>But this old bunch looks like hell. <br><br>But tonight I`ll take what I can get. <br><br>I`d like to hear a great musician <br>With strange ideas and grand ambition, <br>But this guy, he`s got trouble with chords. <br><br>And I`d like to leave this game a winner <br>Head held high, the luck of beginners <br>But this old losers crawling out on all fours. <br><br>But tonight I`ll take what I can get. <br><br>Well this drink will do, <br>And girl you look all right, <br>And this band is playing like hell tonight. <br><br>These dice are loaded <br>And man I am too <br>I might be losing but I`m leaving soon. <br><br>With the prettiest girl <br>To enter this dump, <br>She drank all of the whiskey but she left me the rum <br>And tonight I`ll take what I can get <br><br>I`ve got my sights on brand new beginnings <br>Brand new starts make saints of sinners <br>But I`m doomed to live in my past <br><br>Live nude girls says the sign out front, <br>But old dead dreams are dancing in front, <br>Of old dead dreamers with washed up luck, <br>Selling love for cash <br><br>Well tonight I`ll take what I can get. <br><br>This old story gets stale and dry, <br>No matter how I try and try <br>To spin this fable <br>Fresh and new <br><br>You strung me along <br>Like a tease on prom night <br>Getting me loose but <br>Leaving me uptight <br>Please tell me that <br>Some of that love was true. <br><br>Tonight I`ll take what I can get <br><br>Well this drink will do, <br>And girl you look all right, <br>And this band is playing like hell tonight. <br><br>These dice are loaded <br>And man I am too <br>I might be losing but I`m leaving soon. <br><br>With the prettiest girl <br>To enter this dump, <br>She drank all of the whiskey but she left me the rum <br>And tonight I`ll take what I can get.