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Dirt and Dead Ends Lyrics
you're looking at foreclosure
and doing time
and it don't sound good
this time
they found the meth
and the scales
and the wife
that made your life Hell
and all that time you were telling me you were fine
"awesome, man"
silly man
so I got your dog
how is that?
I made it nice
I wrote a check
you cut the weeds back on my drive
cause you're a good guy
deep down inside
what makes a boy like you go bad?
what makes a man so lonely and sad,
that he'd poison all he knows
and in one year, just let it go?
and all that time you were telling me you were fine
"awesome, man"
silly boy
yeah it's been you and me on this frontier
trying not to be suburban pioneers
fighting off the pavers
and the associations
and the covenants against the trailers
I remember how . . . how we used to laugh
at all those rotten men in their camo drag
with their advantage and their guns
up in the deer stand shooting up a storm
and all the time you were telling me all those lies
"awesome, man"
I'm a silly girl
yeah, you and me
we used to hibernate like bears
and we'd finally come up for air
now everything's all marked and cleared
survey flags flying everywhere
once you told me what
what I'll miss the most
is just being the only ones
with our dirt and our dead end
and no one to turn us in
once you told me what
what I'll miss the most
is just being the only ones
with our dirt road and our dead end . . .
and doing time
and it don't sound good
this time
and the scales
and the wife
that made your life Hell
"awesome, man"
silly man
how is that?
I made it nice
I wrote a check
you cut the weeds back on my drive
cause you're a good guy
deep down inside
what makes a man so lonely and sad,
that he'd poison all he knows
and in one year, just let it go?
"awesome, man"
silly boy
trying not to be suburban pioneers
fighting off the pavers
and the associations
and the covenants against the trailers
at all those rotten men in their camo drag
with their advantage and their guns
up in the deer stand shooting up a storm
"awesome, man"
I'm a silly girl
we used to hibernate like bears
and we'd finally come up for air
now everything's all marked and cleared
survey flags flying everywhere
what I'll miss the most
is just being the only ones
with our dirt and our dead end
and no one to turn us in
what I'll miss the most
is just being the only ones
with our dirt road and our dead end . . .
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This song definitely paints the pros and cons of living in a trailer park. The artist opens with talking about a longtime friend getting busted for meth abuse when she had no idea what he was going through. She appears to have known about the wife though, and she took care of his dog for him. He used to do light work for her and she'd pay him for it.
She wonders how he went dark, because she thought they were both fine and fighting a war against the world together. They were keeping urbanization away from their neighborhood and proudly so, and then he folds underneath her and she's fighting alone. They lose that fight in the end, likely because of this.
"We went into hibernation" I believe is when the meth thing all goes down and he's in jail and she's trying to pull things together for him, and they were in hibernation from the urbanization fight. And when the dust settles and she "comes up for air," the fight is over.