Home      News      Songs      Albums      Notes      Events      Contact      Photos      Guestbook Roger Nelson The Baseline Metadata Song Length 4:50 Primary Genre Folk-Contemporary Secondary Genre - Lead Vocal Male Vocal Language English Era 1990 - 1999 Credits Lyric Credits Roger Nelson Music Credits Roger Nelson Producer Credits Brett Huus, Soundstrations Records, Inc. Short Song Description: A song about entropy Lyrics The Baseline When Lori got a job on the graveyard shift All the cracks in her life turned into rifts And she never saw it coming Never had a clue Now she gets up about noon, she says, "I've got to quit this job pretty soon, I just can't Chorus: Stand another day when the sun just goes down And the light just drains away Like water in the ground When you get up at noon, it doesn't take a scientist to know The sun just goes down, 'cause it's got no place else to go Bert got killed on the railroad tracks We used to see him walking along With a bottle in a sack And nobody seems to know why he turned his back Now he's just another fact that Slipped through the cracks I guess he couldn't (Chorus) It's the gas in the tank, it's the checkbook balance it's the flow in the river, it's the snow in the winter and the leaves in the fall, it's anything at atll anything at all, anything at all. . . This is just another song where the baseline just goes down You can hear them every day on the radio In any little bar in any little town Do they seem to touch a chord? Does it seem to ring a bell? When the baseline just goes down Does it drag your baseline down as well? Or is it (Chorus)