When you don't have a car, any old thing will do, and it works as a pretty good double entendre for impermanent love, if I do say so myself.
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Story behind the song
While slogging my way to another thankless job in the cold, cold wind and rain, I had a huge desire, as one might expect, for a car - ANY car. I like sports cars and anything fast, but I wouldn't have cared if it had two cylinders and was made out of lead at that point. Just something that got me there and maybe had working heat, or at least all of the glass to keep the cold wind out.
It was only after I wrote the lyrics that I realized that it's a great double entendre, the whole thing, for a 'temporary' relationship, the kind you get into because, well, who else is banging down your door. I kinda realized that there ain't much wrong with either situation, you're just doing what you gotta at the time.
Lyrics
A column shifter
Bench seat
Four good wheels
Workin' heat
Outside's rough
Inside's rougher
One Headlight
Half a muffler
Hear this noise comin' from God knows what
Got all the windows
Most of the lugnuts
May not be much
She gets me around
Just keep the shiny side up and the rubber on the ground, yeah
Well that's my baby
Rollin' down the road
Sometimes she's transportation
Sometimes she's home
She's home
If you don't like her
Just shut yer yap
Ain't nothin' wrong
With three hubcaps
Badge on the fender
Used to stoke some lust
Got a lotta chrome
But a bit more rust
Ain't got no wipers
No radio
Just throw 'er in drive hit the gas 'n go
Ain't got much flash
It packs some heart
Bumper sticker says
"Watch for falling parts"
Well that's my baby
Rollin' down the road
Yeah, sometimes she's transportation
Sometimes she's home
She's home
A bit less than classic
A littler more than used
Paintjob looks all right
But the screws'r comin' loose
Can't lock the doors
Or open the trunk
"What's that smell?"
We got the funk
Ain't got no rent
Ain't got no lease
Just four old doors
Some axle grease
Well that's my baby
That's my baby, baby
Well that's my baby
Rollin' down the road
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