As the bars downtown exhale Into a street of blinking lights And you wander out alone into a crowd Of could-be sex and fights Wrap your coat real tight
into our cars and go investigate the world Misdemeanors on the run, fireworks and bubblegum We don't need an interstate It's backroads all the way Look for
Your parents, they warned you Against the kind of boy who parks your cars And has himself one hell of a nerve My momma, she says I shouldn't oughtta
, the winds blow off the water As I ease back in my chair My beer tastes cold as the clouds unfold And the rain fills up this air Yeah, for centuries
silk Sure, the graveyard's full of money But all the epitaphs are lies So I'm doomed to walk the walls For Sweet Patrice
The salt in my hair I'm free and I'm clean And as your phone rings I know what busy work means You know it's me And for a second we just sit and wait
for home The wind starts to sprawl on the 21st morning The Luna starts to yaw, as the bosun's voice booms calling, "Pull boys, for our sons and our daughters
that gun in his mouth There was no left left around him To give back the things he'd spent All those hours in that cramped little van Hoping for the
twenty miles Than stay here in this Chevrolet The drunken fool Behind this wheel Staggers and stumbles two thousand pounds Of Detroit factory steel The others there with him Just along for
I see the way she breathes So full inside her tan Sainted by the sea and sand I know the way she feels All shivering on the land Sainted by the sea and
with us Or you ain't livin' on the beach You got your lotion and your lawn chair You got your break from urban life You see the chance for relaxation