Song Description

Midtempo Americana/Country Rock "independence" / "leaving town" song.

Lyrics

"Union County"
© 2009 Capers Simmons (ASCAP)

VERSE I
On the bad side of the tracks where the whitetrash stays,
There's a Motorcycle Boy on his bike
And he's looking for a sign.
He's praying to the pavement, "Come and take me away.
Can you hear me, Mister Double-Yellow Line?
'Cause I don't--I don't have time.
I've got to see her tonight."

PRECHORUS I
A beautiful girl in a lonely streetlight,
A black-dark trailer park drive.
His engine roars as he races to be with her
And steal her into the night

CHORUS
They're going ninety miles an hour, trying hard to prove
That Ferdinand Magellan was a doggone fool.
If the world was round, instead of pancake flat,
How could people leave town and never come back?
For the Motorcycle Boy and the Mobile-Home Girl
The Union County line is the end of the world;
Gonna fall from the edge, ride through Heaven and Hell,
Leaving it all behind
The Union County line.

VERSE II
Her Momma makes it back from her late-shift job,
Finds a handwritten letter on the gate.
Saying, "Momma, please don't be scared.
Me and the Motorcycle Boy, we'll make a brand new start
Somewhere the pay the is good and all the roads are paved.
And you know that I still care,
But I've got to take this dare."

PRECHORUS II
It's a wild goose chase, a one-in-a-million
Gas-station lottery card,
They're gonna see the world, or try and fail,
Either way, they're gone.

~ CHORUS ~

PRECHORUS III
It's the same old song, it's the usual suspects
A lovestruck boy and girl
Whether wrong or right, they are gone tonight
Aching for the end of the world

~ CHORUS ~