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Licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue,
Scrawled across the shoulders of a dying town.
Took the one eyed Jacks across the railroad tracks,
And the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through.
He's a juvenile delinquent, never learned how to behave,
But the cops'd never think to look in Burma-Shave.
And the road was like a ribbon, and the moon was like a bone,
He didn't seem to be like any guy she'd ever known.
He kinda looked like Farley Granger, with his hair slicked back,
She says I'm a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat.
How far are you going?
He said depends on what you mean?
He says I'm only stoppin' here to get some gasoline.
I guess I'm going thataway just as long as it's paved,
And I guess you'd say I'm on my way to Burma-Shave
And with her knees up on the glove compartment,
Took out her barrettes,
And her hair spilled out like root beer,
And she popped her gum and arched her back.
Hell Marysville ain't nothing but a wide spot in the road,
Some night my heart pounds just like thunder I don't know
Why it don't explode.
Cause everyone in this stinking town,
Has got one foot in the grave,
And I'd rather take my chances,
Out in Burma-Shave.
Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station
Count the grain elevators in the rearview mirror
Mister anywhere you point this thing,
Has got to beat the hell out of the sting
Of going to bed with every dream that dies here every mornin,
And so drill me a hole,
With a barber pole.
I'm jumping my parole just like a fugitive tonight,
Why don't you have another swig,
and pass that car if you're so brave?
I wanna get there before the sun comes up in
Burma-Shave.
And the spider web crack and the mustang screamed
Smoke from the tires and the twisted machine
Just a nickel's worth of dreams and every wishbone that they saved
Lie swindled from them on the way to
Burma shave
And the sun hit the derrick and cast a bat wing shadow
Up against the car door on the shotgun side
And when they pulled her from the wreck you know she
Still had on her shades
They say that dreams are growing wild just this side of
Burma Shave
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