Off The Main Drag - Leif Vollebekk

Old gas station hasn’t changed in decades

Cashier checks the time around her

Put my things on the counter

Pull out my wallet like some pull down the shades

My only brother lent me his only car

Who knew I would drive it so far

Sometimes you move out of some obligations

It was gorgeous on the outside, inside it was just a machine

It was the fastest thing I’ve ever seen

I first met Victoria at Victoria station

We’d always talked about going for a beer

She said, «It's strange now that you’re here.»

We went back to her place, 57th we’d cross it

She’s as poor as me but she looks twice as good

I told her that because it’s something I would

She shrugged a little and she turned off the fauset

And later on as we were crawling into bed

I was thinking on something my father had said

He said, «You're better off, off of the main drag.»

With my well-worn body wrenched like a rag

There I was, straight off the main drag