We Ain’t Leaving this Bar Patrick (Till We Find You Some Love) (Live)

[Verse 1]
Out here on the road the tires swell and the limits bleed
One minute you’re a hero the next minute you’re asleep
You could fall in love a hundred times and no one would ever know
You could shed a million layers and still be sweating in the snow

[Chorus]
But the night is still young our music set is done
And we ain’t leaving this bar Patrick till we find you some love

[Interlude - Spoken]
This song is called "We Ain't Leaving this bar Patrick (till we find you some love"
I forgot to tell you that beforehand
I wrote this song for my friend patrikc
He and I were on tour many years ago
Patrick ain't ever been on a tour before
He was very excited at the beginning
But eight shows deep we were climbing off the stage
And Patrick looked sad
And I wasn't sure why but I had a hunch
You see I think Patrick thought there were gonna be a lot more girls at a John Craigie show than there had been
So far there had been zero
I mean, girls have been in the audience
But we hadn't said anything to them. At all
So to make Patrick feel better I looked at him and I said
"Patrick, we ain't leaving this bar till we found you some love"
And it worked
He smiled and he was like: "Awesome. How, how, how are you gonna do that?"
I was like "I'll just talk to one of these girls, how hard could it be?"
Pretty hard, actually
I don't know if any of y'all have tried talking to a girl before
It is impossible
So after 2 hours of just standing there in the corner, awkwardly
I wrote this song instead

[Verse 2]
Yeah some of these women are crazy, some are gonna drive you wild
The women down in Baton Rouge, they do nothing but make you smile
Some of these men wanna kill me, some wanna love me so
There’s a couple guys in Milwaukee who probably wanna do a little bit of both

[Chorus]
Yeah and the night is still young our music set is done
And we ain’t leaving this bar Patrick till we find you some love

[Verse 3]
There’s a grandma in South Dakota and she treats me like a star
She tells me she listens to nothing but John Craigie CDs and NPR
She says, “when you gonna get famous, boy, when you gonna shine”
I say, “the more famous that you get, honey, the worse songs that you write”

[Chorus]
Yeah and the night is still young our music set is done
And we ain’t leaving this bar Patrick till we find you some love

[Bridge]
I’m a one beer a night kind of guy, I don’t usually drink a lot
But tonight I’ll match you beer for beer and shot for shot
Oh yeah

[Verse 4]
I know this tour’s been weird, I know this tour’s been hard
But like you said, “playing to an empty room is still better than any other job”
And maybe we’ll make it to the big time, maybe we’ll just stay here
But this world ain’t nothing but an open road full of beautiful people’s ears

[Chorus]
Yeah and the night is still young our music set is done
And we ain’t leaving this bar Patrick till we find you some love

[Outro]
The night is still young our music set is done
And we ain’t leaving this bar Patrick
Till we find you some goddamn
Till we find you some goddamn love

Maybe just a little bit of love
Maybe just a kiss on the cheek
Maybe just a handshake
Maybe just a girl waving at her friends who we pretend is waiving at us
A little bit of love