Miles on the Car

I don't care what you do
Stay out all night good for you
Go down to the bar go out to the beach
Far away from the wide world's reach

While I'm rockin the baby in the rockin chair
I want to kill my imagination with a bottle of beer
I know you're putting miles on the car
With your new girlfriend and my guitar

It wasn't so very long ago
We said we'd settle down, have our babies in a row
We'd name them all for flowers and watch them grow

But now I'm rockin the baby in the rockin chair
I want to kill my imagination with a bottle of beer
I know you're putting miles on the car
With your new girlfriend and my guitar

But once we could walk through fire
Once we could breathe underwater
We could find buried treasure
We could cross the world in a single stroke
We could fix everything that we ever broke
We could make true all the lies we said
And we could bring back all the love that was dead

If I had the car I'd put the kids in the back seat
I'd take them out and we'd get something to eat
And they'd fall asleep to the car radio
And I'd just keep on driving, I'd go and I'd go
And eventually we'd go over a crest
And they'd be a little village and we'd be the guest
They'd say, Come on in! Make brand new start!
Have some brand new friends and heal your heart

But I'm rockin the baby in the rockin chair
I want to kill my imagination with a bottle of beer
I know you're putting miles on the car
With your new girlfriends and my guitar