Primer Coat letra

The old man's out by the swimming pool
He goes there to think
He talks on the phone sometimes
Hardly mentions a thing
Says he needed it for his knees
He used to swim back in school
Graduated in '84
Quit drinking in '92

He used to call her a basket case
For going on like she did
The only girl of a foreman's wife
She'd never let him forget
It comes to women and they survive
But when the same comes to men
Someone comes for their babies
Something dies there and then

Slinging gravel in parking lots
And looking tough on the 'hood
A girl as plain as a primer coat
Leaves nothing misunderstood
Her mother and I through trembling lips
A steady hand on his own
The future of every rebel cause
When all the fighting is gone

My sister's marrying in the fall
And everything will be fine
'Cause mama's planning the wedding
Daddy's planning on crying
She's slipping out of her apron strings
You best leave him be
He's staring through his own tail lights
And gathering speed

Drive By Truckers - Letras

• 72 (this Highway's Mean)
• A Blessing And A Curse
• A World Of Hurt
• Aftermath USA
• Angels And Fuselage
• Baggage
• Birmingham
• Box of Spiders
• Bulldozers and Dirt
• Buttholeville
• Careless
• Carl Perkins' Cadillac
• Cassie's Brother
• Cottenseed
• Daddy Learned To Fly
• Daddy's Cup
• Danko / Manuel
• Darkened Flags On The Cusp Of Dawn
• Daylight
• Days Of Graduation
• Dead, Drunk, And Naked
• Decoration Day
• Demonic Possesion
• Demonic Possession
• Do It Yourself
• Easy On Yourself
• Ever South
• Feb. 14
• Filthy And Fried
• First Air Of Autumn
• Goddamn Lonely Love
• Goodbye
• Grand Canyon
• Gravity's Gone
• Greenville To Baton Rouge
• Guitar Man Upstairs
• Guns Of Umpqua
• Hanging On
• Hearing Jimmy Loud
• Heathens
• Hell No, I Ain't Happy
• Kinky Hypocrite
• Late For Church
• Let There Be Rock
• Life In The Factory
• Like A Rolling Stone
• Little Bonnie
• Loaded Gun In The Closet
• Lookout Mountain
• Love Like This
• Made Up English Oceans
• Margo and Harold
• Marry Me
• Moved
• Mrs. Dubose
• My Sweet Annette
• Natural Light
• Never Gunna Change
• Nine Bullets
• Once They Banned Imagine
• One of These Days
• Outfit
• Panties In Your Purse
• Pauline Hawkins
• Plastic Flowers On The Highway
• Play It All Night Long
• Primer Coat
• Putting People On The Moon
• Ramon Casiano
• Rebels
• Road Cases
• Ronnie and Neil
• Sandwiches For The Road
• Shit Shots Count
• Shut Up And Get On The Plane
• Sink Hole
• Sounds Better In The Song
• Space City
• Steve McQueen
• Sun Don't Shine
• Surrender Under Protest
• Tails Facing Up
• The Boys From Alabama
• The Buford Stick
• The Company I Keep
• The Day John Henry Died
• The Deeper In
• The Living Bubba
• The Night G.G. Allen Came to Town
• The Night G.g. Allin Came To Town
• The part Of Him
• The President's Penis is Missing
• The Righteous Path
• The Sands Of Iwo Jima
• The Southern Thing
• The Three Great Alabama Icons
• Til He's Dead Or Rising
• Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)
• Tornadoes
• Two Daughters And a Beautiful Wife
• Uncle Frank
• Used To Be a Cop
• Wallace
• Wednesday
• What It Means
• When He's Gone
• When The Pin Hits The Shell
• When The Well Runs Dry
• When Walter Went Crazy
• Where The Devil Don't Stay
• Why Henry Drinks
• Wife Beater
• Women Without Whiskey
• Your Daddy Hates Me
• Zip City
• Zoloft