The violin & the piano meet up on the shoulder of a country sideroad, 8k outside of town, where a gold car swept me off my skateboard and split it in half, then drove off like nothing happened. I walked all the way back into town with the pieces in my hand and no way to get to and from work in the next town over. Soon after I moved to the city, where I took a job landscaping for the summer, and the rest followed.
The drums slam me into the dirt, the harmonies are shouting in my head, and I'm trying to yell over them,
"ALL I NEED IS A RIDE BACK TO TOWN!"
The Gold Car is God. He turns the radio up and keeps on driving.
lyrics
I got straight outta Dodge,
I'm not collecting moss
& a gold car almost ran me over
The Gold Car is God
Got me straight outta Dodge,
Got me straight outta Dodge
I'm getting right out,
Standing on my front lawn
I don't know what all this noise is about
There's so much in this town
& it's really been bringing me down,
Yea, it's really bringing me down
It's really bringing me down
I got straight outta Dodge,
I'm not collecting moss
& a gold car almost ran me over
The Gold Car is God
Got me straight outta Dodge,
Got me straight outta Dodge
& a gold car almost ran me over
Yea, a gold car almost ran me over
& a gold car almost ran me over
No Gold Car could run me over
credits
from Paint a Lucky Picture,
released May 5, 2023
Lyrics & music by Matt Jonn Lewis
Music by Sam Szigeti & Alex Nunes
Violin by Hannah Kim
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