Down The Coast Highway Lyrics by Stan Ridgway

Down The Coast Highway Lyrics

    He took a drive down the coast highway
    Blowin' where the air was fresh and clean
    He had a plan that said i'll do it my way
    Rollin' from the desert to the sea


    Hit twenty-one years old up in prison
    Just a little night job with a stolen key
    Two years liftin' weights and pumpin' iron there in his cell
    He came out lookin' just like mohammed ali


    He drove around tailgating trucks and busses
    Whistling some new michael jackson tune
    He thought back on his momma and what she told him long ago
    Do it right son, please, don't do it wrong


    He's goin' home
    Gonna buy some stuff down at the pier
    He's all alone
    He's got a radio, a gun, and some japanese beer
    And on the highway he saw the big cars in line
    And he thought, behind every fortune... there's got to be a crime


    He took a drive down the coast highway
    Blowin' where the air was fresh and clean
    He had a plan that said i'll do it my way
    But he could not plan for what he couldn't see


    He's goin' home
    All alone
    And he stopped at a couple of markets and drug stores along the way
    He'd just walk up and down the aisle and smile¨c¨cfunny that way


    The last place he drove into had to be my place
    They said he'd run out of gas anyway
    And as he walked up to the counter with a blue steel gun in his hand
    I took out my long rifle and i blew him away
    I blew him away

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