Just Rites - Don Dixon

The sun was fading, the smell of love in the air

When I passed her I knew something was there

Tried to catch her but she got lost in the crowd

Tried to call her but the music was loud

Checked out the tables, the people on the dance floor

I searched my memory for the clothes that she wore

A yellow sweater and some faded blue jeans

Dingy sneakers and expensive earrings

Just like a detective and that was my evidence that she existed,

that she was in present tense

She had caught me like a fish in a net

She didn’t know it, she hadn’t checked her catch yet (She didn’t yet)

Just right for tonight, so young and so hot

Don’t care if it takes all the money I’ve got

Ain’t got the time, got nothing to say but I’ll lie awake and think about her

someday

The club was closing, the bouncer told me to go

I was reluctant and I politely said so

He grabbed my shoulder and threw me right through the door

I hollered «Thank you!», he called my mother a whore

It’d been a bad night, it shouldn’t end up like this

It’d been a bad night, I needed someone to kiss

Then just like magic, as I was rubbing my head

I heard some laughter and then a gentle voice said, «Come on get up,

been trying to find you all night»

I saw her smiling as she walked into the light

She held her hand out and we both started to grin

We had that one night, I never saw her again, never saw her again

Just right for tonight, so young and so hot

Don’t care if it takes all the money I’ve got

Ain’t got the time, got nothing to say but I’ll lie awake and think about her

someday, alright

Don’t you know, (Just right, just right) she’s just right for tonight,

so young and so hot

Don’t care what kind of future we got

Ain’t got no time, got nothing to say but I’ll lie awake and think about her

someday

(Just right, just right) Just right for tonight, so young and so hot

Don’t care what kind of future we got

Ain’t got no time, got nothing to say but I’ll lie awake and think about that

girl someday

(Just right, just right) Just right for tonight

She got, no, got no future;

I’m thinking, future in sight

Ain’t got no time, got nothing to say but I’ll lie awake and think about that

girl someday

(Just right, just right) Just right for tonight

She got, she got, she got, she got, what I need tonight

Got nothing to say but I’ll lie awake and think about that girl someday

(Just right, just right) Just hold on

Just love, just hot mamma, gonna feel alright

Got no time, got nothing to say but I’ll lie awake and kiss some of that girl

someday

(Just right, just right) Just right for tonight, you’re so

(It's so hot, I know you care)