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Your Dad's Old Car

from Canadiana Americana by Nick Nace

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Your Dad’s old car smells like stale cigars
You drive it faster than it was meant to go
You kill the lights on back roads at night
And lately you’ve been taking the long way home

Pretty blue dress your hair all a mess
Eyes wilder than I have ever seen before
You sing along to the same sad song
Cuz you can't stand to talk to me anymore

Looking everywhere but where you’re going
Smoking cigarettes your face it glows like fire
Keep your eyes on the road babe I don’t want to die this way
You say don't worry daddy thinks I'm a good driver

Your friends in town wish you would slow down
They look at me like they know it’s all my fault
But the country life never fit you right
& you'll leave me where gravel meets the asphalt

Looking everywhere but where you’re going
Smoking cigarettes your face it glows like fire
Keep your eyes on the road babe I don’t want to die this way
You say don't worry daddy thinks I'm a good driver

Most nights I spend with an ear to the wind
On the front porch nursing a beer alone
As if I’ll hear you shift to low gear
Coming over the hill on your way back home

Looking everywhere but where you’re going
Smoking cigarettes your face it glows like fire
Keep your eyes on the road babe I don’t want to die this way
You say don't worry daddy thinks I'm a good driver

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from Canadiana Americana, released April 11, 2017

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Nick Nace was born & raised in the wilds of Canada. His father made his first guitar out of a old pine tree that had been struck by lightning. The night he got it he dreamt of New York City. The day after he was on a south bound train.

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