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[Verse 1]
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Well money can't buy back that 64' Falcon
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That you sold in your 20s, then regretted it was gone
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Cause you thought it contained some meaning with some answers to a life
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But you'd never bother to question
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Or even take a good close looking
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[Verse 2]
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And it broke your heart to see how it had been so very important
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From the feeling of the steering wheel to the rubber on the road
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But now it's grown to unrealistic proportions
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In your mind
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[Verse 3]
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Well now you're in your 50s, why can't you forget
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How the chrome bumpers shined in the sun
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And if you could just go back, even for a minute
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You could forget how you don't even know what it was
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That you lost
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[Verse 4]
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Why you always feel so empty in spite of all you have
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Were those feelings you remember even real
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Were they honestly about some junky old Falcon
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Or any other thing
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That you could own
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[Verse 5]
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Cause now it's all so stale and you feel so very old
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Like you*'ve taken all your chances and tossed em all aside
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For some stupid piece of metal, like shiny bits of trash
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That line the stolen nest of a greedy neighborhood crow
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[Verse 6]
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So you drive back to your hometown to visit with your past
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But nothing looks the same anymore
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And you can see all that you squandered where you were shining all that chrome
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You were handed all you needed without cost
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But you were to blind to see it, you took it all for granted
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Now you want to complain, tell me just what it was that you lost
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[Verse 7]
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And now you start to panic and your gas is running low
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And you need to find some meaning before you're stranded on the road
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And when the engine finally dies near a soybean field of dusk
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You just sit and watch the sunset turn the entire sky to rust
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Turn the entire sky to rust
