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Classic Car Graveyard

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lyrics

There was a car graveyard
on a small town farm in Mississippi
with a couple of old burned out classic cars,
and when I was a kid I would walk on by
and swear that if you just took the time
you could fix one up and drive back to the '50s.

But now it's just an aggregate
of metal frames all rusted shut
and these doors don't open anymore.

It's been a long time since I walked these streets
or breathed this air that tastes so sweet.
It's been a long time since I called my hometown home.
She's a long dirt road and a tuneful breeze
softer than the night, unaccompanied;
that's the melody I remember best.
She's that hard time heartland bluegrass blue note
swimming through the pine tree country,
Dixie-land's pax romana.

But now it's just an aggregate
of metal frames all rusted shut,
a beautiful tribute to herself;
sometimes she's bittersweet,
sometimes a pedal tone
that keeps me on my feet
or nostalgia when I'm breathing deep.

And all the old men line up
at the antique car show 'cuz it's
nice to look back once in a while,
and time has a funny way of
making everything older, but it's
nice to look back once in a while,
and if you see me glancing backwards,
I'm no pillar of salt, it's just
nice to look back once in a while.

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from Winesburg, released June 14, 2016
Additional instrumentation by Jarod Grice.
(c) 2016 Stormcloud Studio Publishing (ASCAP).
Produced, mixed, mastered by Jon Ladner at Stormcloud Studio in Denton, TX.

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