Paid Time Off

Original

I called you

But I'd run out of words

So I stared at the plastic

Collidin' with dirt

At the fast food

Sign out in Leb

I prepared for the warfare

With the voice in my head

And I thought it was strange

How the letters were placed

How the hiring sign

Seemed to laugh in my face

And if you were here, you'd make a joke of it

I'm alone, getting lost in the scope of it

And I see you drive in

And your love is like an open flame

I'm a running car, you're a closed garage

Someone once told us there's a world out there

But we don't care enough to drive that far

It's been a damn near perfect day

Just getting high at the outlet mall

Most people grow up and they move away

But you don't care, and I don't mind at all

I got the car, you got the bag

A handwritten note left from mom and dad

Police scanner bouncing on the dash

A cup of burnt coffee and a check to cash

I had the brains for a city job

But you got the taste of a county cop

A pack of cigarettes and a round of golf

Make a livin' workin' for the paid time off

Such simple lines

They drew to make this place

In the interest of time

We got a whole lot to waste

And your love is like an open flame

I'm a running car and you're a closed garage

Someone once said there's a world out there

But we don't care enough to drive that far

It's been a damn near perfect day

Just getting high at the outlet mall

People grow and they move away

But you don't care, and I don't mind at all

You don't care, and I don't mind at all

I got the car, you got the bag

A handwritten note left from mom and dad

A police scanner bouncing on the dash

A cup of burnt coffee and a check to cash

I had the brains for a city job

But you got the taste of a county cop

A pack of cigarettes and a round of golf

Make a livin' workin' for the paid time of