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This is a song about my car. It’s a semi-Western love ballad throbbing with Wall-of-Voodoo-esque melodrama.
I just read a news story today about a man in Tennessee who tried to marry his '66 Mustang. The clerk got suspicious when he put “10W-40” under “blood type” on the marriage license. For me, my first love was a 1981 VW Dasher with an '83 Rabbit gas engine dropped in. I drove over 100,000 miles before the odometer broke.
Not all of those miles were easy.
And then, well, in the immortal words of Mr. Young,“Rust never sleeps.”
This song was written in 1996. To this day, there’s a flaky orange spot on my heart.