American Cars Lyrics - Singles - Gie Few

I stole an American car 

it took me two places I'd never been 

one was just beyond my home state line 

& the other was in the state pen 

I felt guilty for what I'd done 

I pulled off to the side of the road & prayed 

there were newspaper men all around at the scene 

you probably read about it the very next day 

As I sit here behind this windscreen tonight 

I wonder back through my awkward flight 

we were teenagers in classrooms, but young adults in bars 

I search my mind over & grit my teeth 

& dance down the right lane of old 18 

I believe in broken hearts & American Cars 

I was the one who never got away 

she lost her shirt taking a gamble on me 

I choked back liquor & was speechless 

as she opened the door on permanent leave 

but while I sped along the open road 

& tasted my last breath of free air 

in that two-tone coupe in my brief embrace 

I left that mess in my rearview mirror 

As I sit here behind this windscreen tonight 

I wonder back through my awkward flight 

we were teenagers in classrooms, but young adults in bars 

I search my mind over & grit my teeth 

& dance down the right lane of old 18 

I believe in broken hearts & American Cars 

Three years later I stepped through the front gate 

feeling stronger in body & mind 

she & I had made a vow, or a pact of some sort 

never to search & never to be unkind 

how can one day lay in the middle of spring 

& the next be the middle of fall 

I started wondering if I was ever really there 

or if I'd stolen that car at all 

Well, as I sit here behind this windscreen tonight 

I wonder back through my awkward flight 

we were teenagers in classrooms, but young adults in bars 

I search my mind over & grit my teeth 

& dance down the right lane of old 18 

I believe in broken hearts & American Cars