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Pontiac

from Shake The Dust by Crossing Lions

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This song is about the car that I'll mostly likely never drive, as I'll most likely never learn to drive. Often I think about how much more an inanimate object sees of the world than we do...

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The scarlet sun seeped through the tin roof
Of what used to be
The first love life and joy of a teen who
Let love creep
Right through the cracks
But if we go back
I’m sure you’re bound to see
This steel and wheels knows more of life than me
A starlit blue the car rolled off the lot
And out the prison gates
And met the family who would take him home
And bestow on him his fate
For the first ten years he’d watch the children grow
And finally as they climbed
There’d finally come his
Times change like the radio
When songs we love before
Don’t cut it anymore
Times change when the open road
Is lost or out of hold
Through the eyes of the dashboard
A hand-me-down from father to his boy
The old became the new
A beaten wreck the wrong man fixed his toy
Brought it back to its fine youth
Then showed him life: the tears, the backseat joys
And all the in-betweens
But suddenly it seems that
And as he grew old,
Lo and behold,
He moved away but the car remained.

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from Shake The Dust, released March 25, 2012

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