A Margarita Shy

I took my Stepmom Louise out to lunch for the 5th anniversary of my father's passing. Stopped to pick her up and we launched 5 Heart Shaped balloons into the sky, each with a waxed lips kiss attached to the strings. She was thrilled and we went to her favorite beach restaurant, "Las Olas". My step brother John was working that day and he made sure our Margarita's got spiked! So after a couple of Margarita's with lunch I was pretty "high", I dropped Louise back at the apartment and went on to my Sunday Jam in the park nearby. When I got there I remarked to my good friend Mike that I was a Margarita Shy of a DUI. He immediately responded, great song title, by the next weeks jam I had the song ready to try out on the group....

A Margarita Shy

Well I'm one margarita shy of a DUI
and I'm looking at the girl across the bar
And if she gives me one more wink, I'm gonna buy us both a drink
And hope to hell she's got her own damn car

Well the whiskey tasted fine and then I started drinking wine
Then the girl I was drinking with walked out the door
Was it something that I said, or my wedding band instead
Well I guess I never really know for sure.

And I'm a single drink away from losing you
And I'm staring at the keys beside my beer
If I pickup my cell phone and I call you at home
Ask if you if you'd pick me up right here

I'd have time for just one more
before you'd walk through that door
And look at me the way you always do.
I could try to change your mind, but I know you're not that blind
Still you'd drive me home and make me coffee too.

Well I'm one cocktail away from judgment day
and I think I might be running out of luck
If I can't find me an old friend, who will drive me home again
Well I guess I might be sleeping in my truck.

That ignition interlock won't let me drive it anywhere
I can blow and blow until I'm out of breath
And the way I'm feeling now it's probably better anyhow
I can stay right here and drink myself to death

I'm one margarita shy of a DUI
and I guess that I should head right out the door
If I can make it home tonight and everything's alright
then I can keep coming back for more
yeah then I can keep coming back for more....