About how much I hated driving my daughter's teenage carpool.
Words and Music and singer - Tracy Newman
Guitar - Shaun Cromwell
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My daughter Charlotte is 26 now. This is about driving her to school when she was 16. There were three girls in the carpool. It was hell. I hated it. I hope I got that across.
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ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW
C C7
I hate this school. It’s a forty minute drive
F D7
Why couldn’t she go to the school nearby?
G7 C C7
I’m starving. Why didn’t I bring something to eat?
F D7
Why did I wear shorts? I’m sticking to the seat
G C C7
There’s the volunteer security guard
F Fmi
She’s gonna make all of us move our cars
G7 C
Why did I ever have a child?
G7 C G7
My life was so much easier pre-Charlotte
C G7
I had no idea how good I had it
C C7
I’d see a baby and think, “That’s what I need,
F D7
Someone to love who depends on me.”
G7 F9 C F9 - C
Oh, yeah, it’s all coming back to me now
Here she comes, my little bundle of love
In a hoodie and jeans, she’s walkin’ on her cuffs
Her long blond hair is in a mess of corn rows
She’s rappin’ a verse about gangstas and ho’s
She settles in, I ask “how was school?”
She glares at me, ‘cuz I’m so not cool
How did I ever get this child?
I wonder what’s making her so mean
Then I remember the way I was at sixteen
She’s treatin’ me like I treated my mama
I’m getting my share of overdue karma
Oh, yeah, it’s all coming back to me now
F9 G6
If you’re gonna break away you need to
F9 G6
Turn around and bite the hand that feeds you
Be careful what you wish for ‘cuz
When you have kids you’re a prisoner of love
They knock you out and fill up your heart
They’re your everything; your shining stars
You’d risk your life to protect them and then
They mark up their skin with something permanent
What ever happened to my child?
Why do I keep on suffering this carpool?
Even when I’ve had enough of being the world’s fool
‘Cuz she knocks me out; she fills up my heart
She’s my everything; my shining star
Oh yeah, it’s all coming back to me now
C Tracy Newman 2008
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