Backseat Driver

Album: The High Road (2024)
Charted: 60
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  • 7:30 in the morning in a Mickey D's drive thru
    Two muffins, one coffee and a little bitty orange juice
    I saw a man with a sign on the corner
    I rolled my window down, handed him a dollar
    That's when I heard her ask
    "Hey, Daddy, who was that?"
    And before I could answer back
    She said

    "Daddy, look, there's a plane in the sky
    Are we there yet? Did you just see that dog run by?
    Do squirrels have houses in the trees?
    Why'd God put stingers on honeybees?"
    It's crazy all the things she sees on the side of the road
    Out of that window beside her
    I wish I could be more like her
    My little dangling feet, pretty in pink, backseat driver

    Later on that day, on the highway back home
    I saw a lady in a black Mercedes yelling at her phone
    She flew by me with her finger in the air
    And I had to act like I didn't care
    And that's when I heard her ask
    "Daddy, why was she so mad?"
    Before I could answer back
    She said

    "Daddy, can you please turn up the radio?
    Hey, what are you pushing with your feet that makes us go?
    Do squirrels have houses in the trees?
    Why'd God put stingers on honeybees?"
    It's crazy all the things she sees on the side of the road
    Out of that window beside her
    I wish I could be more like her
    My little dangling feet, pretty in pink, backseat driver

    One day, I'll look back and I'll miss when
    My whole world wasn't over that dash
    It was back there buckled in

    Saying, "Daddy, look, there's a plane in the sky
    Are we there yet? Did you just see that dog run by?
    Do squirrels have houses in the trees?
    Why would God put a stinger on a honeybee?"
    It's crazy all the things she sees on the side of the road
    Out of that window beside her
    I wish I could be more like her
    My little dangling feet, pretty in pink, backseat driver
    Hmm, my backseat driver

    7:30 in the morning in a Mickey D's drive thru
    Two muffins, one coffee and a little bitty orange juice Writer/s: Jacob Davis, Jordan Walker
    Publisher: Audiam, Inc., Downtown Music Publishing, ME GUSTA MUSIC, SEEKER MUSIC PORTFOLIO HOLDCO I LP, SEEKER MUSIC PORTFOLIO HOLDCO I, LP, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • 67kid from SpanawayI love it
  • Carolyn Allen from Amsterdam, NyI love Backseat Driver by Kane Brown, but what's the meaning of Kane going to the trailer at the end of the song? I didn't get that.
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