Gie Few - American Cars lyrics

I stole an American car It took me two places I'd never been One was just beyond my home state line & the other was in the state pen I felt guilty for what I'd done I pulled off to the side of the road & prayed There were newspaper men all around at the scene You probably read about it the very next day As I sit here behind this windscreen tonight I wonder back through my awkward flight We were teenagers in cla**rooms, but young adults in bars I search my mind over & grit my teeth & dance down the right lane of old 18 I believe in broken hearts & American Cars I was the one who never got away She lost her shirt taking a gamble on me I choked back liquor & was speechless As she opened the door on permanent leave But while I sped along the open road & tasted my last breath of free air In that two-tone coupe in my brief embrace I left that mess in my rearview mirror As I sit here behind this windscreen tonight I wonder back through my awkward flight We were teenagers in cla**rooms, but young adults in bars I search my mind over & grit my teeth & dance down the right lane of old 18 I believe in broken hearts & American Cars Three years later I stepped through the front gate Feeling stronger in body & mind She & I had made a vow, or a pact of some sort Never to search & never to be unkind How can one day lay in the middle of spring & the next be the middle of fall I started wondering if I was ever really there Or if I'd stolen that car at all Well, as I sit here behind this windscreen tonight I wonder back through my awkward flight We were teenagers in cla**rooms, but young adults in bars I search my mind over & grit my teeth & dance down the right lane of old 18 I believe in broken hearts & American Cars