Down The Coast Highway Lyrics - Stan Ridgway

He took a drive down the coast highway 

Blowin' where the air was fresh and clean 

He had a plan that said, "I'll do it my way" 

Rollin' from the desert to the sea 

Hit twenty-one years old, up in prison 

Just a little night job with a stolen key 

Two years liftin' weights and pumpin' iron there in his cell 

He came out lookin' just like Mohamed Ali 

He drove around tailgating trucks and buses 

Whistling some new Michael Jackson tune 

He thought back on his momma and what she told him long ago 

Do it right son, please, don't do it wrong 

He's goin' home 

Gonna buy some stuff down at the pier 

He's all alone 

He's got a radio, a gun and some Japanese beer 

And on the highway he saw 

Big cars in line 

And he thought, behind every fortune 

There's got to be a crime 

He took a drive down the coast highway 

Blowin' where the air was fresh and clean 

He had a plan that said, "I'll do it my way" 

But he could not plan for what he couldn't see 

He's goin' home 

All alone 

And he stopped at a couple of markets 

And drug stores along the way 

He'd just walk up and down the aisle and smile 

Funny that way 

The last place he drove into had to be my place 

They said he'd run out of gas anyway 

And as he walked up to the counter 

With a blue steel gun in his hand 

I took out my long rifle and I blew him away 

I blew him away