Company Car

from Too Sick For School by Old Joy

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don't mix business w/ pleasure

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it was the company car that he took upstate
he put his hand on her arm but her face said it was too late

it was dark when he came
he checked in at night
under pictures of Elvis by an old Bakelite

oh the concierge scowled, she was sixty four
when he asked for his key she kept her eyes on the door

it's the room upstairs, is what she finally said
and when he got inside his head dropped like a rock on the bed

& he fell asleep, had a lonely dream
about his boyhood home & he woke up in the bed alone

it was the company car that he took upstate
he put his hand on her arm but her face said it was too late

he remembered her, the first face he sees
when he wakes up now but she still feels unreal like dreams

it was a business trip, some minute bullshit
it's just the time of my life, it doesn't mean anything

used to wasting time for a real good cause
an inevitable death never gave him pause

if he thinks of her, he just wants to go
used to make him wanna live but now he's dying slow

it was the company car that he took upstate
he put his hand on her arm but her face said it was too late

that's just how it goes is what his dad would say
but his dad's been dead now for ten thousand days

he knows people leave & their love does too
but if you work real hard it doesn't get to you
so he kept his job & what a job to do

don't work too hard get an early grave
but in his mind his life is pretty much the same

it was the company car that he took upstate
he put his hand on her arm but her face said it was too late

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from Too Sick For School, released April 20, 2023

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Old Joy Austin, Texas

Scum Pop/Power Trash from Chicago IL
Now located in Austin TX
Booking/press: onesockman@gmail.com
IG: @oldjoychicago

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