ATF: Automotivations

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Jude Cole]

Start the Car

Jude Cole

Yeah

Yeah

Uh-huh

Well I'm tired of the pressure

So tired of the pace

Just wanna grab you baby

And get out of this place

I got no chance of makin’ it

Workin’ downtown

Just walkin’ slow

And talkin’ low

And tired of goin’ down

Down

Down

Start the car

We gotta move

This ain't no livin’

This ain't no groove

It's been a long

Hard road

Come on baby

Ooh baby

Let's drive it home

Start the car

We started out for paradise

But this ain't no promised land

This ain't no kind of livin’

For an honest workin’ man

Well there's people dyin’ on the streets

Sure don't make the news

Ooh yeah

While others livin’ up on the hill

Singin’ the white boy blues

Whoa oh

Start the car

We gotta move

This ain't no livin’

No livin’

This ain't no groove

The city's rich

Or dirt poor

But somewhere waitin’

Ooh yeah

There's something more

Start the car

Well we're goin’ out with dignity

We're goin’ out with style

Gonna lay down that hammer baby

Make our own road  across the miles

'Cause I can't take this town one more day

Whoa oh

Start the car

We gotta move

This ain't no livin’

No livin’

This ain't no groove

The city's rich

Or dirt poor

But somewhere waitin’

Somewhere waitin’

There's gotta be something more

Start the car

Yeah

It's been a long

Hard road

Well come on baby

Let's drive it home

Start the car

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Start the car

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Start the car

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Start the car

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Start the car

Mabeline

Why can't you be true

Start the car

Link: [The Wallflowers]

One Headlight

The Wallflowers

So long ago

I don't remember when

That's when they say

I lost my only friend

Well they said she died easy

Of a broken heart disease

As I listened through the cemetery trees

I seen the sun comin' up

At the funeral at dawn

With the long broken arm of human law

Now it always seemed such a waste

She always had a pretty face

I wondered why she hung around this place

Hey hey hey

Come on try a little

Nothin’ is forever

There's got to be somethin’ better than

In the middle

But me and Cinderella

We put it all together

We can drive it home

With one headlight

She said it's cold

It feels like Independence Day

And I can't break away from this parade

But there's got to be an openin’

Somewhere here in front of me

Through this maze of ugliness and greed

And I seen the sun up ahead

At the county line bridge

Sayin' all is good

And nothingness is dead

We'll run until she's out of breath

She ran until there's nothin' left

She hit the end

It's just her window ledge

Hey hey hey

Come on try a little

Nothin’ is forever

There's got to be somethin’ better than

In the middle

But me and Cinderella

We put it all together

We can drive it home

With one headlight

Well, this place is old

It feels just like a beat up truck

I turn the engine

But the engine doesn't turn

Well, it smells of cheap wine and cigarettes

This place is always such a mess

Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn

I'm so alone

And I feel just like somebody else

Man I ain't changed

But I know I ain't the same

But somewhere here in between

The city walls of dyin' dreams

I think your death

It must be killin' me

Hey, hey, hey

Come on try a little

Nothin’ is forever

There's got to be somethin’ better than

In the middle

But me and Cinderella

We put it all together

We can drive it home

With one headlight

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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