"Burma Shave" <br /> <br />licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue scrawled across the shoulders <br />of a dying town the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks <br />and the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through <br />he was a juvenile delinquent never learned how to behave <br />but the cops would never think to look in <br />burma shave <br /> <br />and the road was like a ribbon and the moon was like a bone <br />he didn't seem to be like any guy she'd ever known <br />he kinda looked like farley granger with his hair slicked back <br />she says i'm a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat <br />how far are you going he said depends on what you mean <br />he says i'm going thataway just as long as it's paved <br />i guess you'd say i'm on my way to <br />burma shave <br /> <br />and her knees up on the glove compartment <br />took out her barrettes and her hair spilled out like rootbeer <br />and she popped her gum and arched her back <br />hell marysville ain't nothing but a wide spot in the road <br />some night my heart pounds just like thunder <br />i don't know why it don't explode <br />cause everyone in this stinking town has got one foot in the grave <br />and i'd rather take my chances out in <br />burma shave <br /> <br />presley's what i go by why don't you change the station <br />count the grain elevators in the rearview mirror <br />mister anywhere you point this thing <br />has got to beat the hell out of the sting <br />of going to bed with every dream that dies here every mornin <br />and so drill me a hole with a barber pole <br />i'm jumping my parole just like a fugitive tonight <br />why don't you have another swig <br />and pass that car if you're so brave <br />i wanna get there before the sun comes up in <br />burma shave <br /> <br />and the spider web crack and the mustang screamed <br />smoke from the tires and the twisted machine <br />just a nickel's worth of dreams and every wishbone that they saved <br />lie swindled from them on the way to <br />burma shave <br /> <br />and the sun hit the derrick and cast a bat wing shadow <br />up against the car door on the shot gun side <br />and when they pulled her from the wreck you know she <br />still had on her shades <br />they say that dreams are growing wild just this side of <br />burma shave
