Silver Beauty

I could barely hear myself think
When I'd take her off down the road
But she was a helluva lot better
Than that girl that came from Mexico
And Valvoline wet her whistle
It wasn't like that when we first met
Just a couple quarts here and there
It turned her into quite the leaky mess
She might've had a little too much rust
But thats why I sure loved
My Silver Beauty

Now Silver used to make me money
Knockin doors for Politicians
And voters gave me lots of shit
for driving a car that ain't American
And she got pretty good mileage
Cuz she couldn't make it over eighty
Usually going to my cabin
North of the Manistee
Yeah I coulda tried rolling coal
But I'd rather go to and fro
In my Silver Beauty

3000 miles short of 400
I was driving back from Tennessee
Her engine was burning and boiling hot and
spitting out tons of steam
And now she sitting in a dealership
coulda saved her if I had a little change
I'm sorry Silver Beauty

Well you don't know what you got
Til you sell it to a junk yard
Cuz they just wanna by it cheap
and turn it around and sell it for them parts
And I thank god transformers
ain't real cuz if they were
I know Silver would want revenge
for that promise I made to her
When I told her I'll be back again
but I knew that time would end
For my Silver Beauty

And I wish I got just one more chance
I wish I got another goodbye
I wish that yard would me send the check
cuz my wells running dry
And life will never be the same
cuz I'm selfish and I had to leave
My Silver Beauty