And I'm startin' to think
Yeah, one of these days
Bet she's workin' somewhere cool
But I'm not gonna be held down
One Friday she said, "That's it, I'm quittin'"
When we came back from lunch she didn't
One of these days, 'cause I'm too good for this place
"One of these days, I'm getting out of here"
That girl wasn't nobody's fool
'Bout every thirty minutes somebody said
We all thought that she was just kidding'
And every mornin' when she'd clock in she'd say
Things are gonna change one of these days
One of these days, 'cause I'm too good for this place
I can't count the times I heard her say
"Man, it's hot in here"
Robbie Lee watchin' his world come down around him
One of these days, 'cause I'm too good for this place
Bags all packed steppin' on a Greyhound
Now I don't mean that like it sounds
And that was it
Things are gonna change one of these days
One of these days, I'm getting out of here
And at night they'd meet at the cold spot and drink some beer
Somebody said they'd seen her downtown
Yeah, one of these days
She worked in a laundry pressin' shirts and pants
"One of these days, I'm getting out of here"
But I'm not gonna be held down
Now I don't mean that like it sounds
Eight hours a day at that iron she'd stand
Things are gonna change one of these days
She tied up her hair but she wouldn't cut it off
Now I don't mean that like it sounds but I'm not gonna be held down
'Cause Robbie Lee likes it better when it's lone
