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Seeing Less Than Half of Their Faces

from Better Late Than Never by Mike Kuster

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I wrote this in the first few months of the COVID-19 lockdown. With no one allowed to go anywhere, I know most of us couldn't wait to break free and socialize even if it meant some restrictions. So, I imagined going out with masks and trying to play the field while everyone was wearing masks.

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When the COVID disease starts wanin
And they open up the bars
Get outta my way! I’m after my prey
In the neon through them swingin’ doors
Don’t matter the restrictions! I’ll keep my distance
Longs the music and the booze are good
If the ladies come dancin’ and lookin’ for romancin’
You know that I’ll be
Huntin’ the bars and going through the paces
Seeing less than half of their faces
Getting’ to know their personalities
Hopin’ for the best when I get to see

The rest of her face when that mask comes off
Prayin’ I won’t regret my choices
Is she a nine
Or is she a one
Stayin’ at home and bars being closed
is really taking a toll on me
Don’t know how much more I can take
Before something inside me breaks

Sharing drinks on Zoom on a double-blind date
Does nothin’ for my mood
don’t mean to be crude
but it just ain’t the same
And it sure as hell don’t satiate

This COVID disease is drivin’ me crazy
And I ain’t so much as sneezed
I’ve gotta get out and cure this withdraw that’s
growin’ inside of me

Beautiful women and sweet country music
and whiskey are all that I need
In a bar with some stools that are six feet apart
restore some honky tonk in my veins

Huntin’ the bars and going through the paces
Seeing less than half of their faces
Gettin’ to know their personalities
Hopin’ for the best when I get to be in

Bars full of strangers
Not carin’ bout the dangers
I’ll never know if they’ve got COVID
I’ll never know what their masks are hidin’
Bars full of strangers
Don’t think about the dangers
Masks can help stop the spread of disease, but
next thing I wake up to a smile with just two teeth
Maybe we oughta just get that vaccine

credits

from Better Late Than Never, track released November 12, 1974
Songwriter and Vocals: Mike Kuster
Producer, Keyboards, Drums, and Background Vocals: Dr. Ford
Guitars: Chris Condon
Bass Guitar: Caleb Mundy
Fiddles: Michael Cleveland

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Mike Kuster Walkersville, Maryland

Mike Kuster filled his debut album, Better Late Than Never, with country songs he wrote grounded in a love for traditional country music. Mike tapped a group of award-winning musicians to bring his songs to life including Dr. Ford, Chris Condon (guitars), Caleb Mundy (bass guitar), Smith Curry (pedal steel guitar and dobro), Gary Carter (steel guitar), and Michael Cleveland (fiddle and mandolin). ... more

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