cary cooper: listen

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written from an assignment to pick a car from a parking lot and write a song from the perspective of the driver...

sun's so bright
don't even care that i've been up all night
i'd even swear the birds are singing right along
with my radio

i've been listening to the grateful dead
trucking to new orleans in my head
and i feel the sweat run down my dreads
roll down my window

cause i ain't got not air conditioning
in this beat up vdbug bug
got it from my hippie uncle
for three hundred and fifty bucks
usually it gets me where i want to go
just a little slow
it's yellow

don't have a job
sometimes i wish i did but mostly not
but that's never what i tell my mom
on the telephone
she calls a lot
i think she wonders if i'm smoking pot
or reading all those self-help books she bough
last time i was home

but they're still laying in the backseat
of this beat up vdbug bug
got it from my hippie uncle
for three hundred and fifty bucks
usually it gets me where i want to go
just a little slow
it's yellow

sometimes all a girl needs it
just a way to be free that's
when i reach for my keys and drive

i'm just rolling down the highway
in my beat up vdbug bug
got it from my hippie uncle
for three hundred and fifty bucks
usually it gets me where i want to go
just a little slow
it's yellow

my beat up vdub, beat up vdub, beat up vdub, beat up vdub, beat up vdub
it's yellow
i love my beat up vdub, beat up vdub, beat up vdub, beat up vdub, beat up vdub
it's yellow