Story Behind The Song
A 73 Dodge Dart has a life that resembles the authors much too closely
Song Description
Living up on on old road in the mountains of Colorado dodging elk and deer the old dodge made its way home, busted radiator, broken ball joints and dented on every corner its life was much like its driver's
| Song Length |
2:57 |
Genre |
Blues - Rock, Country - Contemporary |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Moving |
Subject |
Life, Sadness |
| Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
Lyrics
Battered and Blue
(Like an Old Dodge I Knew)
Sometimes I feel like an old steering wheel
Been turned around so many times
That I don't know what is real
So much like an old machine whose vital gears are worn
I can't take back the miles I've gone and I need to be reborn
That long winding highway like to bring me to my knees
Got one light in the ditches and another light in the trees
Still I seem to find a way cross another rocky lane
As if I'd always known that there is no way round the pain
I'm battered and blue like an old Dodge I knew
Have trouble getting started, I been stuck a time or two
There's dents on ever corner man
I guess I've paid my dues
I'm battered and blue, I'm battered and blue
So stitched and patched together I can barely hold my own
So far into the darkness that I'm at the break of dawn
If I ever find a way that will let me lose my load
I'll follow that old highway like a friend I always known.
I'm battered and blue like an old Dodge I knew
Have trouble getting started, I been stuck a time or two
There's dents on ever corner man
I guess I paid my dues
I'm battered and blue, I'm battered and blue
I'm battered and blue, I'm battered and blue