Semi-True Story

Album: Beach House On The Moon (1999)
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  • With his head out the sunroof
    And his heart in the right place
    Plan B was fool proof.
    He drove off to her place,
    And yelled out his feelings
    Among other stuff.

    It was too much tequila
    Or not quite enough
    It was too much tequila
    Or not quite enough.

    It's a semi-true story
    Believe it or not
    I made up a few things
    And there's some I forgot.
    But the life and the tellin'
    Are both real to me
    And they all run together and turn out to be
    A semi-true story.

    Well, the picture is fuzzy,
    And the details are sordid.
    It was on the same day
    God's Own Drunk was recorded.
    A walkin' tall sheriff
    And a big Cadillac
    And me and my golf shoes
    On the hood makin' tracks.
    This daring young singer
    Was under attack.

    It's a semi-true story
    Believe it or not
    I made up a few things
    And there's some I forgot.
    But the life and the tellin'
    Are both real to me
    And they all run together and turn out to be
    A semi-true story.

    Well, the things that I've lived
    And I've dreamed
    And I've seen
    And I've heard
    You take the good with the bad
    And be glad to have every word.

    It's a semi-true story
    Believe it or not
    I made up a few things
    And there's some I forgot.
    But the life and the tellin'
    Are both real to me
    And they run like the rain
    All the way to the sea.
    Semi-true stories.
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