Burned Out Car lyrics

Live out of a suitcase in the back

Wash in the restrooms at the Shell

Get my meals in the Taco Bell

Eat in parking lots from a paper sack

Duck out of the window and out of sight

The cops come by and shine their lights

The dealers are fighting in the night

I hug my sleeping bag real tight

I live in a car that doesn't go nowhere

It's one short step to a shopping cart

In a twilight world that has no heart

I watch the sun go down from a burned out car

I'd be in movies but they don't give leads

To any people that look like me

Got a layer of funk from the ozone cloud

When the sun goes down I just hide out

I live in a car that doesn't go nowhere

It's one short step to a shopping cart

In a twilight world that has no heart

I watch the sun go down from a burned out car

I wish that I could get relief

I wish that I could fix my teeth

I wish that I could wash my clothes

I wish I had some place to go

I live in a car that doesn't go nowhere

It's one short step to a shopping cart

In a twilight world that has no heart

I watch the sun go down from a burned out car

• Artist:Murray McLauchlan
• Album:Gulliver's Taxi [1996]