Oh Cliffy’s Car

oh cliffy’s car
i pray you would start
quit grieving no more
for a dead man’s heart

5 years come november
my daddy’s been gone
he left you with me
bereft & forlorn

sometimes you’d be goin
then suddenly stop
so i’d be walking home
from the liquor shop

then for some unknown reason
your battery died
& right at the jump-start
your computer got fried

so i bought you a new one
plus a new battery
sometimes i lent you to friends
so callously

then i canned that idea
lest your grieving increase
& for a while we were friends
making our peace

then you got beat up in the street
along with 3 other cars
your windscreen got smashed
came out with some scars

now the auto-glass man
says this car’s got rust
i can’t fix it
do what you must

so i rang up the wreckers
300 bucks tops
that’s not a lot
for a car of my pop’s

it was while i was sleeping
on this dopey news when
your alarm went off
at 3.20am

it was like you were crying
to the world vehicle saviour
& you did it again
half an hour later

& now you done it
you done it again
don’t feel like starting
as if i ain’t your friend

well i know i ain’t cliffy
& i don’t know what i done
i ain’t him
i ain’t the one

oh cliffy’s car
i pray you would start
quit grieving no more
for a dead man’s heart