Surrounded by snow and friends I don't know
I drive buy that 57 Chevy in the lot
I'm putting in my time but it's too slow going by
pretending to get wise and quit my job
Gotta enough money to buy that 57
turn the radio on and I'm just floating over the pavement
ain't nothing back there I haven't already found
Bobby's found work as a day time cook
but that don't make him any less lost as me
behind the black barred prison
lacking in decision
easy to settle for blind picket fence security
Judy's scared thinking she's in love with someone else
Her pictures lying shotgun next to me
I'm gonna write her a letter, telling her maybe it's better
than a straight jacket smile in the passenger's seat
credits
from Redemption (out of print),
released October 1, 1996
TJ - guitar/vocals
Eric Griffin - drums/backing vocal
Darren Matthews - lead guitar
Eric Straumanis -bass
Marty Letz - pedal steel
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