Baby’s Got Backseat
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You get to that point, man, where you realize you’re talking to yourself. You’re in the car and right there, right then, looking at her, you know it and you know you should just stop talking, just hush up and let it all go, get out the car and let it go, on account of talking won’t do nothing but make it worse. But does anybody ever hush up when they ought to? No sir, no they don’t.
It’s not just that you’re talking to your ownself, it’s that you realize you’ve been talking to yourself for a long time. And she’s been doing the same damned thing, talking to her ownself. She just figured it out quicker.
So you get yourself out of the car and you’re standing there on the 2AM sidewalk trying not to shout out something unforgivable as she drives away. And you stand there with your hands empty and your heart cracked open and when you finally stop shouting you realize how quiet it is. And it occurs to you that it’s going to be quiet for a long time.
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