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Artist: Drive By Truckers
Canonical path: /drive-by-truckers/primer-coat
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Primer Coat
Read Primer Coat lyrics by Drive By Truckers on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Primer Coat
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The old man's out by the swimming pool
He goes there to think
He talks on the phone sometimes
Hardly mentions a thing
Says he needed it for his knees
He used to swim back in school
Graduated in '84
Quit drinking in '92
He used to call her a basket case
For going on like she did
The only girl of a foreman's wife
She'd never let him forget
It comes to women and they survive
But when the same comes to men
Someone comes for their babies
Something dies there and then
Slinging gravel in parking lots
And looking tough on the 'hood
A girl as plain as a primer coat
Leaves nothing misunderstood
Her mother and I through trembling lips
A steady hand on his own
The future of every rebel cause
When all the fighting is gone
My sister's marrying in the fall
And everything will be fine
'Cause mama's planning the wedding
Daddy's planning on crying
She's slipping out of her apron strings
You best leave him be
He's staring through his own tail lights
And gathering speed
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