illinois is not missouri

probably one of my favorite

nights playing on stage in a long

time tonight at six strings

in bloomington, illinois

the radio station

had been playing our music

and people knew it

that sounds simple enough,

but I haven't really been

'working' anything in a while

so it's always a surprise

the sound was incredible

I did pull a spinal tap moment

and mentioned how great it was

to be in missouri

'you're in illinois!' I heard

yelled back

I laughed, the crowd laughed

I flew off the stage

on a harness while rainbow

laser beams shot out of my eyes

the requests were cool

and songs I wanted to play

a laid back crowd

that wanted nothing but

our songs

hard to beat

then I was walking down the

sidewalk and some people stopped

me to say they enjoyed the show

they were heading to a tattoo

parlor so I followed along

with them

it was closed but the owner

opened up the shop

I took pictures with the

people from the show inside

the tattoo parlor

while I talked to another dude

about doing his record

I was thinking while I was

looking into a camera

with my arm around two strangers

what an odd life I have

I enjoy it quite a bit