Blacktop Moon: Tunes

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A song about being young and restless and wanting to leave a small town.

Daddy’s El Camino
Jim Brumm

From where I sit
This place is so far gone
The streets are deserted
There’s nothing going on
The only things to do
Are shooting pool and drinking beers

The only jobs anymore
Are down at the casino
Got my foot on the bumper
Of my daddy’s El Camino
It’s the only thing he left me
But it hasn’t run for years

My best friend Danny
Married Becky Taylor
They’ve got a couple kids
Rent a little trailer
But he’s so damn busy now
He can’t be hanging around

I’m gonna get myself a job
Save a little money
Fix this car
And when I get it running
Gonna fire it up
And cruise on out of this town

This time of year
The sun just burns the skies
The glare’s so bad
You’ve got to squint your eyes
To see that hot, flat desert
Stretching out to God knows where

There’s only one road in
And one road out
That long black ribbon’s
Got me thinking about
What the world might hold
What might be waiting out there

Seems like everyone I know
Is dying or leaving
But there ain’t no use
In getting mad or grieving
This old town wears the past
Like a thorny crown

I’m gonna get myself a job
Save a little money
Fix this car
And when I get it running
Gonna fire it up
And cruise on out of this town

So color me gone
It won’t be long now
With one last look
At everything that’s gone now
I grind my smoke
Into the dry hard ground

I’m gonna get myself a job
Save a little money
Fix this car
And when I get it running
Gonna fire it up
And cruise on out of this town

Gonna fire it up
And move on out of this town