Right Place / Wrong Time

[ERIC]

Well, I'm a writer

A writer of songs

Pretty little ditties and singalongs

So I ain't made a dime in a while

Been workin' the circuit

To sell my wares

Got a lot of material

No one cares

They tell me that my songs have gone out of style

Mhmm, hey hey

I score a showcase

Some big record man

I know by the end

He's gonna be my fan

I play my music bit by bit

Woo!

Well my hands are shakin'

My head is high

He sees this and fidgets

Says "what else you got?"

I shrug and I'm like

"Well, that was it"

He says "if you'd come in here in '73

You're the kind that I would have signed instantly

But it's now, not then, so if I may be bold

Your material just feels a little old"

I walk out his office

Head full of strife

'Cause this is the story of my life

I'm in the

Right place at the wrong time

And it's a short walk

But a long climb

I'm in the

Right place at the

Wrong time

I'm in the right song with the wrong rhyme

Is there a space where I belong I'm

Just in the right place at the

Wrong time

Hey, hey

Is there anybody who feels this way?

[KATRINA]

I am a singer

My dreams are big

But producer's minds are small

So I can't get a gig

And I've been at it for a while

In my Corolla, I drive around

From audition to audition

They don't like my sound

They tell me my singing's out of style

Singin' in a bar, owner looks at my face

Says me I remind him of a girl who used to work in this place

She made it real big, but that was way back when

You'd be set if you'd been around then

I throw back a whiskey

Then one more

Because I've heard it all before

I'm in the

Right place at the wrong time

And it's a short walk

But a long climb

I'm in the

Right place at the

Wrong time

I'm in the right song with the wrong rhyme

Is there a space where I belong I'm

Just in the right place at the

Wrong time

Hey, hey

Is there anybody who feels this way?

Mhmm

[ERIC]

I leave the building

[KATRINA]

Walk out the bar

[ERIC]

I head for the street

[KATRINA]

And I get in my car

[ERIC]

I'm prayin', Lord

Please send some kind of sign

Then I see the woman

Her eyes are deep and black

[KATRINA]

In my windshield there's a man

With a guitar on his back

[ERIC & KATRINA]

I wonder if her/his life is just like mine

[KATRINA]

Stare at each other

[ERIC]

Feelings hypnotized

[KATRINA]

We never break the contact from each other's eyes

[ERIC]

Even as she accidentally mows me down

[KATRINA]

Now he's bloody on the pavement

[ERIC]

And I am close to death

And I could smell the alcohol upon her breath

[KATRINA]

And I hear sirens comin' from across the town

[ERIC & KATRINA]

And now my song is done and my life is too

And my story is a testament to all those who

Are in the

[KATRINA]

Right place at the wrong time

[ERIC]

Right place at the wrong time

[KATRINA]

Short walk but a long climb

[ERIC]

Short walk but a long climb

[KATRINA]

Right place at the wrong time

[ERIC]

Right place at the wrong time

[KATRINA]

I'm in the right song with the wrong rhyme

[ERIC]

Right song with the wrong rhyme

[KATRINA]

Is there a space where I belong I'm

[ERIC]

Space where I belong I'm

[KATRINA]

Right place at the

[ERIC & KATRINA]

Wrong time

We're in the

Right place at the wrong time

And it's a short walk

But a long climb

We're in the

Right place at the

Wrong time

We're in the right song with the wrong rhyme

Is there a space where I belong I'm

Just in the right place at the

Wrong time

Hey, hey

Now I'm not the only person who feels this way

Hey, hey

Hey, he-e-ey

Hey hey, he-e-ey

Mhmm

Right place, wrong time