Classic love story true to his western tx roots. One of my favorites as a story, but I think there are alot of songs that are amazing not even listed on this site. I guess I should figure out how to add them, because I have about 8 REK cd's.
They don't know how old I am
They found armor in my belly
From the sixteenth century
Conquistador, I think
They don't know how old I am
They found armor in my belly
Passion out of machine revving tension
Lashing out at machine revving tension
Rushing by the machine revving tension
Morning broke out the backside of a truck-stop
The end of a line a real, rainbow-likening, luck stop
Where you could say I became chronologically fucked up
Put ten bucks in just to get the tank topped off
Then I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted
It's a cool, sweet kinda place
Where the coppers won't spot it
And I destroyed the map, I even thought I forgot it
However, everyday I'm dumping the body
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for me if you don't understand
Yeah
And I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted
It's a cool, sweet kinda place
Where the coppers won't spot it
And I destroyed the map that I'd carefully dotted
However, everyday I'm dumping the body
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for me if you don't understand
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
They found armor in my belly
From the sixteenth century
Conquistador, I think
They don't know how old I am
They found armor in my belly
Passion out of machine revving tension
Lashing out at machine revving tension
Rushing by the machine revving tension
Morning broke out the backside of a truck-stop
The end of a line a real, rainbow-likening, luck stop
Where you could say I became chronologically fucked up
Put ten bucks in just to get the tank topped off
Then I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted
It's a cool, sweet kinda place
Where the coppers won't spot it
And I destroyed the map, I even thought I forgot it
However, everyday I'm dumping the body
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for me if you don't understand
Yeah
And I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted
It's a cool, sweet kinda place
Where the coppers won't spot it
And I destroyed the map that I'd carefully dotted
However, everyday I'm dumping the body
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for me if you don't understand
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
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Locked In The Trunk of A Car Lyrics as written by Gordon Sinclair Gordon Downie
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
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I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Like all hip songs, there are multiple threads or ideas woven into the song, not always strongly related, but in this case they all focus around bodies. The song starts off, quite plainly with an archaeological, or other type of dig, where a skeleton has been found - there's lots of archaeology going on around Kingston all the time - that's what I do. In fact I have have worked in McBurney Park in Kingston that used to be a graveyard & is commonly called "Skeleton Park". There is a summer music festival there (Skeleton Park Music Festival) & the Hip have recorded a song called "Skeleton Park" that hasn't been on an album, but was available as a specal download for a wireless company. The 'chronologically fucked-up' section (an archaeological term) happened decades ago in a village NW of K-town whre a pot-hunter/looter was trying to sell a red ocher burial mound skeleton out of the trunk of his car. The cool, sweet, dark, rotted section refers to an incident that took place in the late 80's or early 90's north of Kingston (Barry's Bay) just south of Algonquin Park, where a guy took a girl in the summer, killed her & hid her body in the woods & went to visit it & have sex with it, for a while. Of course Gordie's not going to talk about this in interviews. kinda bad PR - he usually justs makes up stuff on the spot for his own intertainment - a mystery is also good. The last section is about the mental anguish of committing a crime where a body has been dummped in a wooded rural area outside of a city & finnaly the screams of a kidnapped victum locked in the trunk of a car. I don't see any link to the FLQ incident - the body was never dumped.
@edge24 Nice edge!! Thanks for the history lesson!! I had always wondered WHERE that terrifying song "came from", i.e. what "inspired" the 'Hip to create it; now I know!! PJV