[00:00.54]Artist:drive-by truckers [00:02.66]Songs Title:zip city [00:05.72] [00:33.76]Your Daddy was mad as hell [00:35.76] [00:36.51]He was mad at me and you [00:38.57]As he tied that chain to the front of my car and pulled me out of that ditch that we slid into [00:43.88] [00:44.87]Don't know what his problem is [00:46.62] [00:47.24]Why he keeps dragging you away [00:49.74]Don't know why I put up with this shit [00:52.55]When you don't put out and Zip City's so far away [00:55.29] [01:24.37]Your Daddy is a deacon down at the Salem Church of Christ [01:28.24] [01:29.05]And He makes good money as long as Reynolds Wrap keeps everything wrapped up tight [01:34.10] [01:35.60]Your Mama's as good a wife and Mama as she can be [01:39.22] [01:40.34]And your Sister's puttin' that sweet stuff on everybody in town but me [01:44.90] [01:46.89]Your Brother was the first-born, got ten fingers and ten toes [01:50.26] [01:51.45]And it's a damn good thing cause He needs all twenty to keep the closet door closed [01:56.63] [02:29.14]Maybe it's the twenty-six mile drive from Zip City to Colbert Heights [02:33.89] [02:35.26]Keeps my mind clean [02:36.44] [02:37.63]Gets me through the night [02:39.19] [02:40.31]Maybe you're just a destination, a place for me to go [02:45.18]A way to keep from having to deal with my seventeen-year-old mind all alone [02:50.67] [02:51.67]Keep your drawers on, girl, it ain't worth the fight [02:54.97] [02:56.10]By the time you drop them I'll be gone [02:58.72]And you'll be right where they fall the rest of your life [03:02.27] [03:23.99]You say you're tired of me taking you for granted [03:26.92] [03:28.29]Waiting' up till the last minute to call you up and see what you want to do [03:33.85] [03:35.10]Well you're only fifteen, girl, you ain't got no secretary [03:38.97] [03:40.47]And "for granted" is a mighty big word for a country girl like you [03:45.21] [03:45.83]You know it's just your Daddy talking [03:47.64] [03:48.89]Cause He knows that blood red carpet at the Salem Church of Christ [03:53.63] [03:54.44]Ain't gonna ever see no wedding between me and you [03:58.75] [04:42.80]Zip City it's a good thing that they built a wall around you [04:47.73] [04:48.48]Zip up to Tennessee then zip back down to Alabama [04:52.91] [04:54.29]I got 350 heads on a 305 engine [04:58.84] [04:59.59]I get ten miles to the gallon [05:01.96] [05:02.52]I ain't got no good intentions