The Tough Sell

<br>“She`s a beaute, yes sir she is” said EZ DAN, fifty five, a bad age,<br>smelling of Brute from Fabrege` and sweat<br>EZ DAN don`t bathe a lot these days (and why the hell should he anyway?)<br>“She`s got a few miles on her, but then again, who don`t?”<br>he said with a slight chuckle, the recent Binaca Blast still lingering on his<br>breath,<br>“and besides, them`s highway miles”<br><br>I shifted my weight from one foot to the other<br>it certainly wasn`t the car of my dreams, but the price was right<br>and EZ DAN assured me the mid 70`s were a particularly nice period<br>for Chrysler products in general<br>“and this one is a Volare`”<br>and besides, finally having an eight-track means I can play<br>all them tapes I ain`t been able to listen to since high-school<br><br>so we stuffed EZ DAN`s body in the trunk and hauled ass out of town<br>but somewhere just past the middle of nowhere the fuel pump blew<br>and the oil pump too, and the piston rods hurled straight threw the engine<br>block<br>dropping oil, gasoline, water, and anti-freeze onto the Alabama red clay below<br><br>Ain`t that a bitch?<br>I ain`t never been lucky with love<br><br><br><br><br><br>lyrics by Patterson Hood<br>music by Drive-by Truckers (Cooley, Hood, Howell, Lane, Neff, and Sell)