Nothin' But Taillights

(album: Big Time - 1997)

She used to sit in the passenger seat
Tapping on the dash with her bare feet
Popping that gum and painting her toenails blue
She'd turn on the radio and crank it up
That girl could never get it loud enough
She'd make up words to songs she thought she knew

Yeah saturday nights we'd lead the parade
Of tricked out Fords and Chevrolets
We'd cruise through town and head down to the lake
Well I was hanging with the boys a little bit later
Talking 'bout tires and carburetors
When I happened to see my whole world drive away

Now I've got nothing but taillights
Nothing but goodbye
Nothing but leaving going on
And I'm nothing but sorry
Got nothing but memories
She's nothing but taillights gone

I ain't saying she stole that car
But that was May and this is March
And all I get are tickets in the mail
She was doing eighty-five in Tennessee
Clocked in Kansas doing ninety-three
I just hope she lets me post her bail

Cause I've got nothing but taillights
Nothing but goodbye
Nothing but leaving going on
And I'm nothing but sorry
Got nothing but memories
She's nothing but taillights gone...come back baby

I've got nothing but taillights
Nothing but goodbye
Nothing but leaving going on
And I'm nothing but sorry
Got nothing but memories
She's nothing but taillights gone

Lord she's nothing but taillights gone