primer coat
Singer:drive-by truckers
the old man's out by the swimming pool
he talks on the phone sometimes
said he needed it for his knees
he used to swim back in school
he used to call her a basket case for hanging on like she did
the only girl of a foreman's wife she'd never let him forget
it comes to women and they survive but when the same comes to men
someone comes for their babies something dies there and then
slinging gravel in parking lots and looking tough on the hood
a girl as plain as a primer coat leaves nothing misunderstood
her mother and i through trembling lips
the future of every rebel cause
when all the fight in him is gone
my sister's marrying in the spring and everything will be fine
mama's planning the wedding
daddy's planning on crying
she's slipping out of her apron strings
he's staring through his own taillights and gathering speed