Written: Jayne Lane, Las Cruces NM, 1977
Knees was getting a little sick of the rehashed ideas and melodies that the C&W world was cranking out and decided he could do just as badly. So he wrote this song, using an exact ripoff of the melody for Heartaches by the Number. Oddly, the song became a favorite in the Las Cruces area. In the 90s when he recorded it, he decided to sing a harmony to the original melody so it wouldn’t be as recognizable as a ripoff.
By midnight you can find me sittin on this stool
Talkin to my scotch an soda babblin like a fool
Don’t think about disturbin me
By askin me to dance
Cuz I’m one shot past bein friendly
An that’s two shots past romance.
So I just stare at that ghost in the mirror
A sadder face you’d never want to see
An I wonder why that ghost in the mirror
Seems to be starin at me.
There’s a woman sittin down the bar
I’ve seen her here before
She takes a drink and sheds a tear
An says she’ll have one more
Well I’ve never been a talker
Or a player of fancy games
An something makes me wonder
If she feels the same.
An now there’s two lonely ghosts in the mirror
A sadder pair you’d never want to see
An I wonder why those ghosts in the mirror
Seem to be starin at me.