Stayed for the Stories

I only stopped in for one drink

Had somewhere else to go

Pulled up a chair down at Black Sea

Said I won't stay long you know

An old man leaned across the bar

Said you ain't heard this one

The ice went melting in my glass

And I forgot to run

I came for one drink

Just enough to say I'd been

Then somebody started talking

And everybody settled in

One story turned to two

Then the hours slipped away

You might come here for the whiskey

But the stories make you stay

One tale was from the old days

One nobody quite believed

One he'd told a hundred times

But still nobody wanted to leave

We laughed until the chairs pulled close

Somebody poured one more

Funny how a room of strangers

Turns to friends before the door

I came for one drink

Just enough to say I'd been

Then somebody started talking

And everybody settled in

One story turned to two

Then the hours slipped away

You might come here for the whiskey

But the stories make you stay

By the time I checked the old wall clock

The night was nearly gone

Somebody asked you heading out

I smiled and said not yet go on

I came for one drink

Now I know how nights begin

Somebody starts remembering

And everybody settled in

One story turns to two

Then the hours slip away

You might come here for the whiskey

But the stories make you stay

You might come here for the whiskey

But the stories make you stay