Numbers on the Cars

Album: Different 'Round Here (2019)
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  • Stopped by that house on Nesbitt Lake
    He's sittin' in his easy chair
    Watchin' a Sunday evenin' race
    Tells me my grandma's in the other room
    Guess he forgot we laid her down
    It'll be a year come June

    Then he mumbles about Vietnam
    He don't know who the hell I am
    But the drivers, well, he tells me who they are
    I guess he still knows the numbers on the cars

    Try to get him out like we used to
    But now I load the truck and I drive the boat
    'Cause there ain't much he can do, nah
    Cast him a line and watched it as it sank
    Thinkin' how we used to talk for hours
    Now he just stares at the bank

    He used to know every stop in this fishin' hole
    Though he probably thinks that we're in Mexico
    But he knows his way around that boat
    Even in the dark
    And he still knows the numbers on the cars

    Well no, he ain't all there
    But I don't care
    My mind still full of memories with him
    And he may not know
    All the words to the songs
    But he still knows Merle Haggard's voice when he hears it

    I stopped by that house on Nesbitt Lake
    With a couple of tickets
    To go see the Sunday evenin' race
    As we watched those cars fly around the track
    I asked the Lord if just one more time
    He'd bring my old friend back

    Then somewhere around lap twenty-three
    That old man turned and smiled at me and
    For a moment I know he knows where we are
    And he still knows the numbers
    Yeah, he still knows the numbers
    He still knows the numbers
    Numbers on the cars
    Yeah, he still knows the numbers Writer/s: Riley Green
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Dave from OhioShould be, "Stopped by that house on Nesbitt Lake"...a small lake near Riley's hometown of Jacksonville, AL
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