Flashback .. Fast Forward

Three A.M. .. Living In My Car Again

i'd left west monroe behind

it was a small country town

yet winnie-stowell was smaller

a tiny Godforsaken oil boom town

I already knew i'd not like it there

i'd lived there once before

yet here I was again

found dennis at his folks house

cousin david was there too

I asked them about ricky and ronny

they'd left town ahead of me

when the big bust began

ronny had agreeably moved in

with aunt sis and uncle jimmy

ricky's outlaw ways had him hiding in the shed's loft

I was relieved they had shelter

J. D. arrived after he'd made bail

him, his wife terri and my nephew

they rented a trailer from uncle earl

I got a job .. moved in with them

his wife demanded my check

every week I gave it to them

I only slept on the couch

every payday they'd get my check

then she told J. D. i'd to move out

I had a car i'd traded my truck for

I left .. drove to high island again

lived in my car the next two weeks

a hippie commune arrived

erected a giant army surplus tent

flashback .. it brought back heady memories

woodstock '69 .. resurrection tent

an infirmary for the drug overdosed

fast forward .. made myself a pallet

two hundred freaks were staying there

my first night .. I was wakened

two a.m. .. three people inside

had been stabbed and robbed

crooks had gotten clean away

three a.m. .. living in my car again

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