Florida - Blue Rodeo

This is a song that I wrote about a trip down to Florida one time

I went down, I went down there with my supposed best friend and girlfrend,

alright

So we had this Delta 88 that we were driving down for some woman who lived in

Fort Lauderdale

And by the time we got to North Carolina, my best friend and my girlfriend we

in the backseat of the car making out

Now, at the time, I was into uh, the collective non-existence of love

And uh, and I just said, «Well, that’s great then, right?»

And, I, I thought I could be strong

But no ladies and gentlemen, I couldn’t handle it, I started freaking out

And so, we got down to Florida and there was one night I was watching them

screw on the beach

And that was okay, you know, that wasn’t so bad

Then we went back to my mother’s trailer home and they were sort of covered in

tar from the beach

You know, our beaches in North America, I guess, you don’t out here, but anyways

Haha, so I get home, and so, they go into the shower, right

And they start screwing in the shower

The next day, the next day, I went into the shower and there’s like tar and

feet stains and everything all over the place in the shower

And I had to clean it all up there with my tears and my sixpack,

ladies and gentlemen

And I remember Florida

The land of endless malls

Images of Elvis flicks

Convertibles and blondes

And I remember Nat King Cole

Singing a song about the rain

Yeah, I’m feeling blue again

Oh yeah, I’m feeling blue again

And I remember drinking

In those air-conditioned bars

Putting all my quarters in a juke-box

With big silver stars

And I remember crying

And I remember Nat King Cole

Singing a song about the rain

Yeah, I’m feeling blue again

Yeah, I’m feeling blue again

Everybody now

And it was just like a vacation

And I’m sure we had us some fun

It was just like a vacation

And I swear we even sat out in the sun

Make us cry, James

You see my, my mother owned a trailer home

On west Broward past A1A

And to beat the north wind

We took a spin

To that tin can by the sea (Tell us a story)

Well I thought she was mine

But she was just passing time

She even passed town out of my car

And left me with Nat King Cole

And the silver stars

Oh, Nat King Cole and the silver stars

And it was just like a vacation

And I’m sure we had us some fun

It was just like a vacation (Just like a vacation)

And I sure we had us some fun (We had some kind of fun)

It was just like a vacation (Come on, people, we’ll always be people)

And I swear we even sat out

Yeah, I swear we even sat out

Yeah, I swear, swear we even sat out in the sun

In the sun

In the sun

In the sun

The good people of Saskatoon

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