Primer Coat Lyrics - English Oceans - Drive By Truckers

The old man's out by the swimming pool 

He goes there to think 

He talks on the phone sometimes 

Hardly mentions a thing 

Said he needed it for his knees 

He used to swim back in school 

Graduated in 84, quit drinking in 92 

He used to call her a basket case for hanging on like she did 

The only girl of a foreman's wife She'd never let him forget 

It comes to women and they survive but when the same comes to men 

Someone comes for their babies something dies there and then 

Slinging gravel in parking lots and looking tough on the hood 

A girl as plain as a primer coat leaves nothing misunderstood 

Her mother and I through trembling lips, a steady hand on his own 

The future of every rebel cause, when all the fight in him is gone 

My sister's marrying in the spring and everything will be fine 

Mama's planning the wedding, Daddy's planning on crying 

She's slipping out of her apron strings 

You best leave him be 

He's staring through his own taillights and gathering speed