Thursday, June 4, 2015

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.



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



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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8 comments:

  1. go ahead and start the car but be careful driving around with one headlight or you might get pulled over

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! Was it you you or Lin, who knocked out the headlight? The first one to rat out the other gets the coffee!

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  2. I feel as if I've been out driving the long and winding road today. I've heard of Jude Cole before this. Maybe his road didn't reach down this far! :)

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Lee!!! I do believe that I was out in the middle of California and heading north on I-5 the first time I heard that song. It certainly made a very boring stretch of highway a lot more tolerable to me at the time.

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    2. I meant to say I'd not heard of Jude Cole before this.

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    3. Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Lee!!! He made a fairly big splash over here in the 90s, but this will be the only one of his songs to make my list.

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  3. Start the car - and drive over them!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Adullamite!!! During your driver training, did't you have trouble driving over everything but what you wanted to?

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