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Stand By Your Truck

from EXILE (digital) by Steven Gray

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STAND BY YOUR TRUCK


I saw a beat-up pickup truck,
it hadn’t any doors,
I think that makes it easier
for picking up a whore.

But everyone can see what you are
doing with your gear shift,
a woman working the transmission
if you get my drift.

The truck for sale, I bought it, and
I’m feeling truculent,
I met a woman who reminds me
of a succulent.

I took her for a ride and showed her
I could take the curves
without my even looking and
she said, “You’ve got some nerve.”

I CALL MY VEHICLE OLD PAINT,
IF YOU SAW IT YOU WOULD FAINT,
I’M A SINNER, NOT A SAINT,
BUT IT BRINGS ME LUCK – STAND BY YOUR TRUCK

I know it sounds mechanical
a man and his machine,
but every pickup has a bed,
you know what I mean?

The truck is used, it was abused,
it doesn’t have reverse,
although It could be worse, I could be
riding in a hearse.

It isn’t something I rehearse,
I’d rather have a horse,
the world is driving me off course
and people are a curse.

With no reverse it means that I don’t
have a backup plan,
I’m kind of forward but some women
like that in a man.

I CALL MY VEHICLE OLD PAINT,
IF YOU SAW IT YOU WOULD FAINT,
I’M A SINNER, NOT A SAINT,
BUT IT BRINGS ME LUCK – STAND BY YOUR TRUCK

I’m not an introvert because
I like internal combustion,
the highway is for extroverts
and some are getting busted

I’m stricken by the news, so I am
truckin’ by the views,
the motor is exhausted and
a man is born to lose.

A pickup truck, I like to call it
a patrol torpedo
cause it’s straight ahead and it is
good for my libido.

With a pretty woman in it
I am hauling ass
and calling for an hallelujah
on the overpass.

I CALL MY VEHICLE OLD PAINT,
IF YOU SAW IT YOU WOULD FAINT,
I’M A SINNER, NOT A SAINT,
BUT IT BRINGS ME LUCK – STAND BY YOUR TRUCK

credits

from EXILE (digital), released September 9, 2022
guitar & vocals: SG
bass: Jaime Duquette
drums: Ira Sakolsky
harmonica: Eric Nelsen

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Steven Gray Connecticut

Steven Gray lived in San Francisco since before there were computers and people would communicate by sending smoke signals with their cigarettes. He’s a writer & musician whose recordings have been episodic. He read his work all over town for years, but using 2020 vision he moved to the coastline of Connecticut where he stares at the fire. His email:
telepoetic77@hotmail.com (don't use this site)
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