Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Workin' the schedule, sufficient coolant leak
We thought we were doin' the right thing
Well ya cannot be too picky, in Cheyenne on a Sunday
And up walked a mechanic with perpendicular teeth
Perpendicular teeth x 8
By the seventeenth hour, they pulled us up in the 'bayg
and funky tooth started diggin down under the hood
After clearin a path to the water pump, and takin' a four hour break,
By hour 27 we were all good, And we sailed
From little America x 8
Only 2 days later, on the way down to Deep Elum,
We broke down in Oklahoma, where the wind come behind the rain
We got towed to a town called Perry, where a woman's car took priority
She had a Kidney In A Cooler, so two nights we had to stay so she could
Deliver the Kidney x 8
If you go down to Deep Elem, down to the gypsy tea room, tell em
Mama broke down in Perry and I'll try to make it back soon
Oh, sweet mama, your daddy got them Deep Elem Blues
Oh, sweet mama, well your daddy got them Deep Elem Blues
Well I know I'll be payin, for the conquest life she threw,
Unrealistic maybe, but there's somethin I got to do, I need
A big ass bus with a satellite dish, a double-decker double wide,
What I wish, I dream of it, oh it must be true
Double Decker Double Wide x 8
It's gonna have two ice makers, in both refrigerators, a silent but violent
generator, to run the subwoofers and the disco ball, and the escalator
up to the dance hall, On the second floor with a giant skylight, A drivin
range and jacuzzi just right, for skinny dippin right after the show,
At 80 miles an hour, it's worth all the dough.......
Until then, I'll stand on the corner with a sign,
Says, I will work for my Double Decker Double Wide
My Double Decker Double Wide x 8
Perpendicular Teeth, Little America, Deliver The Kidney, In my
Double Decker Double Wide x 4
We thought we were doin' the right thing
Well ya cannot be too picky, in Cheyenne on a Sunday
And up walked a mechanic with perpendicular teeth
Perpendicular teeth x 8
By the seventeenth hour, they pulled us up in the 'bayg
and funky tooth started diggin down under the hood
After clearin a path to the water pump, and takin' a four hour break,
By hour 27 we were all good, And we sailed
From little America x 8
Only 2 days later, on the way down to Deep Elum,
We broke down in Oklahoma, where the wind come behind the rain
We got towed to a town called Perry, where a woman's car took priority
She had a Kidney In A Cooler, so two nights we had to stay so she could
Deliver the Kidney x 8
If you go down to Deep Elem, down to the gypsy tea room, tell em
Mama broke down in Perry and I'll try to make it back soon
Oh, sweet mama, your daddy got them Deep Elem Blues
Oh, sweet mama, well your daddy got them Deep Elem Blues
Well I know I'll be payin, for the conquest life she threw,
Unrealistic maybe, but there's somethin I got to do, I need
A big ass bus with a satellite dish, a double-decker double wide,
What I wish, I dream of it, oh it must be true
Double Decker Double Wide x 8
It's gonna have two ice makers, in both refrigerators, a silent but violent
generator, to run the subwoofers and the disco ball, and the escalator
up to the dance hall, On the second floor with a giant skylight, A drivin
range and jacuzzi just right, for skinny dippin right after the show,
At 80 miles an hour, it's worth all the dough.......
Until then, I'll stand on the corner with a sign,
Says, I will work for my Double Decker Double Wide
My Double Decker Double Wide x 8
Perpendicular Teeth, Little America, Deliver The Kidney, In my
Double Decker Double Wide x 4
Lyrics submitted by ThirstyintheRain
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