wal-mart parking lot

i remember the summer i turned sixteen

and that old jalopy daddy gave to me

it had holes in the floor and just a 305

but i didn't care 'cause i could finally drive

there wasn't much to do in my hometown

so every weekend night

we would all go down: there were freaks and hippies in my high school

football players all tryin' to be cool

and everybody scramblin' to hide their beer

when the cops drove by 'til the coast was clear

kids fallin' in and out of love

on the hood of chevys

in the beds of trucks

we were stumblin' our way through life 'til our senior year

but man we sure did learn a lot

in that wal-mart parking lot

she had long blond hair and sea-green eyes

the most beautiful thing i'd ever seen in my life

but i was young and dumb and didn't have a line

and all i could say was

can i call ya' sometime?"