Grieves - Take You Home lyrics

[Hook: Grieves] Everybody won't you please buckle up As I step behind the wheel Gonna take you to a small little town In the dark where it's really real It might look so nice in pictures But I swear that you don't know That underneath the surface all the scary things are lurking Come on baby let me take you home [Verse 1: Spose] As we take a left turn onto roads that's dirt We see a raccoon scurry and the crows disperse And up here on the left, my ex, Barbara Jeff shot his wife to d**h Then he turned the gun and k**ed himself next And up here on the right That's the tree where my sister's friend Christine Hit the sh** and died when she was 15 Never got drunk or went to precalc Memorialized in car decals And on the left if you look into the window ‘hind those evergreens You'll see a 23 year old having s** with a girl who is 17 And if we park right here, an owl's eating a mouse We see Sandra silhouetted, soundless, leaving her house To go and cheat on her spouse Saw my region looking scenic in that picture you took But you could always find the dirt if you know where to look Get in the car [Hook: Grieves] Everybody won't you please buckle up As I step behind the wheel Gonna take you to a small little town In the dark where it's really real It might look so nice in pictures But I swear that you don't know That underneath the surface all the scary things are lurking Come on baby let me take you home [Verse 2: Spose] As we continue the voyage into southern Wells That's the barn where my homie's sister hung herself We never talked about it when we're there for dinner Even though the walls still got all her school pictures Oh that restaurant over there, that's a tourist trap Where my buddy Jack's dad snapped like a quarterback It was Friday evening, man it must have been insane He tried to run over Jack's stepdad at the custody exchange Meanwhile, in the kitchen of the restaurant The cook feel blurry, it's plural Estefan's Grinding the teeth in his tattoo'd face Did coke off the toilet in his bathroom break And up here on the right, one night was snowy white like cool whip I came across this chick I went to school with walking by herself I said, “Online, it looking like you were living the dream” She wiped a tear, said, “Things aren't always what they seem” [Hook: Grieves] Everybody won't you please buckle up As I step behind the wheel Gonna take you to a small little town In the dark where it's really real It might look so nice in pictures But I swear that you don't know That underneath the surface all the scary things are lurking Come on baby let me take you home [Verse 3: Spose] My blinker signal like a vigil in the darkest of night Venus and Mars, stars all sparkling bright Take a look at that apartment there on your right That's where my friend Kate lived the hardest of lifes She was pretty, eighth grade had the carnal delights She had a baby, born disabled, but this part isn't right Kate loved her as a mother, but she was 8 when she died Now even when she's full, Kate feels empty inside But suffering is nothing new, you can't be that surprised 'Cause there were 40 thousand in the Abenaki tribe By 1758, we k**ed ‘em all off All these little kid bodies hauled off with smallpox These roads paved on their graves, waves crash like accidents k**ed them all then named our yearbook after ‘em You might not see it when you're staying in Maine But it gets real when you peel away the layers of paint [Hook: Grieves] Everybody won't you please buckle up As I step behind the wheel Gonna take you to a small little town In the dark where it's really real It might look so nice in pictures But I swear that you don't know That underneath the surface all the scary things are lurking Come on baby let me take you home [Outro: Grieves] Take you home Let me take you home, yeah Getting dark outside, yeah It's getting dark outside, uh It's getting dark outside, yeah Baby run and hide It's getting dark outside Let me take you home, yeah It's getting dark outside Baby go run and hide It's getting dark outside, yeah You know it f** off