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When i first met doreen
She was barely seventeen.
She was drinking whiskey sours in the bar.
The way she tossed 'em back
I would've had a heart attack.
But as it is i let her drive my car.
We galloped through the boroughs
Like a pair of horny thoroughbreds,
Until i said, "stop the car, doreen."
Well you can roll your eyes and nod
But i swear that i saw god,
In the moonlight on a side street in the wreckage we call queens.
Doreen, doreen, last night i had an awful dream.
You were laying in the arms of a man i'd never seen.
Come clean doreen. come clean doreen.
Well i'm pulling into cleveland
In a seven-seater tour van.
There's eight of us, so i'm sleeping on the floor.
The guy that plays the banjo
Keeps on handing me the old crow,
Which multiplies my sorrow, i can't take it anymore.
Doreen, doreen, last night i had an awful dream.
You were laying in the arms of a man i'd never seen.
Come clean doreen. come clean doreen.
Now i'm begging and i'm pleading,
"well pull over guys, i'm bleeding.
There's a fina off the highway with a phone."
I'm calling you doreen,
But it rings and rings and rings.
Where is it that you are, if you aren't in our bed at home.
Doreen, doreen, last night i had an awful dream.
You were laying in the arms of a man i'd never seen.
Come clean doreen. come clean doreen.
She was barely seventeen.
She was drinking whiskey sours in the bar.
I would've had a heart attack.
But as it is i let her drive my car.
Like a pair of horny thoroughbreds,
Until i said, "stop the car, doreen."
But i swear that i saw god,
In the moonlight on a side street in the wreckage we call queens.
You were laying in the arms of a man i'd never seen.
Come clean doreen. come clean doreen.
In a seven-seater tour van.
There's eight of us, so i'm sleeping on the floor.
Keeps on handing me the old crow,
Which multiplies my sorrow, i can't take it anymore.
You were laying in the arms of a man i'd never seen.
Come clean doreen. come clean doreen.
"well pull over guys, i'm bleeding.
There's a fina off the highway with a phone."
But it rings and rings and rings.
Where is it that you are, if you aren't in our bed at home.
You were laying in the arms of a man i'd never seen.
Come clean doreen. come clean doreen.
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Such a great song! I like the Hitchhike to Rhome version the best. In this song there is a relationship where the singer is obsessed with Doreen. He had a dream that Doreen was cheating on him and he thinks, or fears, that it is true. The thought of his dream and Doreen cheating on him is too much to bear and its all he can think about. "The guy that plays the banjo" is giving him whiskey (Old Crow) to help him forget about it, but the drunker that he gets, the more he thinks about Doreen cheating on him. Eventually he tells the band to pull over at a gas station(Fina) so he can call Doreen and hopefully put an end to this terrible thought. Sadly, Doreen is not there to answer the phone so he thinks that Doreen is out with another man.
This song is about relationships that are ruined by one of the persons being obsessed and reading into hypothetical situations with a bad series of events.
my favorite version is the devil doll version and i agree on the discription of KS14