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Bulldozers and Dirt Lyrics
I met your mama when I was sixteen
You couldn’t have been anymore than three
She caught me stealing yall’s color TV
She called the cops and they arrested me
She was the wildest thing I’d ever seen
the way she pointed that shotgun at me
the police hauled my ass off to jail
Your mama signed the trailer to help make the bail
She picked me up and drove me home
said “I’ll learn you not to roam��?
Green green grass under my feet
but all I can think about’s the dirt underneath
Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt
behind the trailer, my desert
Them red clay piles are heaven on earth
I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt
I got a pickup that’s up on blocks
and I’m up to my ass in debt and hock
and I can’t get the red stains off of my socks
and I can’t get you off of my mind
I’ve lived with your mama for eleven years
Through good times, and bad times, fist fights and tears
but something comes over me when you come near
so won’t you come over and sip on this beer
Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt
behind the trailer, my desert
I don’t mean no harm, I just like to flirt
but most of all I like bulldozers and dirt
most of all I like bulldozers and dirt
You couldn’t have been anymore than three
She caught me stealing yall’s color TV
She called the cops and they arrested me
the way she pointed that shotgun at me
the police hauled my ass off to jail
Your mama signed the trailer to help make the bail
said “I’ll learn you not to roam��?
Green green grass under my feet
but all I can think about’s the dirt underneath
behind the trailer, my desert
Them red clay piles are heaven on earth
I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt
and I’m up to my ass in debt and hock
and I can’t get the red stains off of my socks
and I can’t get you off of my mind
Through good times, and bad times, fist fights and tears
but something comes over me when you come near
so won’t you come over and sip on this beer
behind the trailer, my desert
I don’t mean no harm, I just like to flirt
but most of all I like bulldozers and dirt
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Instead of assuming the most ugly, vulgar, ignorant yankee opinion of a southern song that you can possibly muster..... Maybe....
My foolish opinion is as follows: Many of Drive By Truckers songs show a relation to alcoholism, stay with me here. So I think the song is the basis of a dysfunctional man who dated a woman who with he was originally caught stealing her TV who now years later has simply reached the age of which he values reminiscing the past with the step daughter that he helped to raise. But now he is separated from her mother he longs for his makeshift family. Also if you you are unaware the thought of the beauty to be found in dirt, albeit in this case maybe it is being admired by a simpleton, (continuing sentence) then you need to move your city-idiot ass out of the city. Or better yet stay there. But he is placing value in the simplicity of dirt because he is simple, just like dirt. Also he can't get those damned red stains out his socks, because his life lacks structure. I could elaborate all day but hopefully everyone's mind is out of the gutter by now, because from the first time I heard this song all I thought of was reconnecting with my past and how it's really easier to consider that pushing dirt around with bulldozers is like building big sandcastles and that is a good alternative to drowning in your memories while losing mind because it is simple and thoughtless.
@spokenthoughts Dude, you're going way out of your way to avoid actually reading the song that's clearly about a guy trying to take his 14 year old stepdaughter out behind the trailer to fuck her. It's not even a particularly complicated metaphor, and as a hillbilly with fucked up relatives, I can say this is awful, but it happens. You're just not comfortable admitting it, which is why shit like it keeps happening while people are too embarrassed to rat these dirty motherfuckers out. You take your weird, flowery interpretation back to church, pretend none of this ever happens.
@spokenthoughts Dude, you're going way out of your way to avoid actually reading the song that's clearly about a guy trying to take his 14 year old stepdaughter out behind the trailer to fuck her. It's not even a particularly complicated metaphor, and as a hillbilly with fucked up relatives, I can say this is awful, but it happens. You're just not comfortable admitting it, which is why shit like it keeps happening while people are too embarrassed to rat these dirty motherfuckers out. You take your weird, flowery interpretation back to church, pretend none of this ever happens.
A 31 year old man reminiscing a life of destruction makes a final run at his youth and hits on his ex girlfriend's 13 year old daughter.
Mr. Bulldozer should be 27 and the daughter 13 or 14. Sorry.
Mr. Bulldozer should be 27 and the daughter 13 or 14. Sorry.
Anyone have any thoughts on the "can't get the red stains off of my socks line"? The obvious thought is the red clay referenced earlier in the song has stained his socks but I feel that there is more to it than that. Also "behind the trailer my dessert"... is that the red clay or the 14 yr old girl?