Songtext When the coast is clear Jimmy Buffett

When the coast is clear

By: jimmy buffett, mac mcanally
For emery clark, who paints it better than I can say it
Theyre closin down the hangout
The air is turnin cool
Theyre shuttin off the superslide
The kids are back in school

The tourist traps are empty
Vacancy abounds
Almost like it used to be
Before the circus came to town

Chorus:
Thats when it always happens
The same time every year
I come down to talk to me
When the coast is clear

Hello mister other me
Its been a long long time
We hardly get to have these chats
That in itselfs a crime

So tell me all your troubles
Ill surely tell you mine
Well laugh and smoke and cuss and joke and
Have a glass of wine

Chorus:
Thats where it always happens
The same place every year
I come down to talk to me
When the coast is clear

(instrumental)

(its the only place he knows)
Where it always happens
The same place every year
I still come down to talk to me
When the coast is clear