Glorified Gran

Intro

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It was a hot afternoon

The last day of June

And the sun was a demon

The breeze was delayed

I was stuck in the shade

And the pavement was steaming

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He left his friend Ray

In a red Chevrolet

Without doing any real thinking

He came stumbling by

Caught a gnat in his eye

And pretended that he was just winking

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I was thirty-one

And he was seventeen

He knew nothing 'bout love

Or the washing machine

But he sat down beside me

On my front porch swing

And I wondered why he smelled like Burger King

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He kept squinting his eyes

At the blazing hot skies

And the kid started clearly to swelter

The sweat trickled down

Staining his t-shirt brown

And I thought the humidity'd melt him

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I threw back my hair

Seeking out some cool air

As I quietly sipped on my julep

He tripped on a chair

With a mouth-breathing stare

And he crushed my prize-winning red tulip

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And when he gawked at me

I sighed and had to say

"I know you're young

You don't know what to do or say

But if you're gonna loiter till the sun goes away

Could you fetch me some ice on a tray?"

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And then I smiled

At this awkward man-child

Then we walked for a mile to the sea

We sat on the sand

And the boy grabbed my hand

And I felt like a glorified Gran

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Ten years have gone by

Since that gnat in his eye

But the memory lingers

I go back in my mind

To this teenager blind

And the cheese dust left on his fingers

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It was a hot afternoon

The last day of June

And the sun was a demon

The breeze was delayed

I was stuck in the shade

And the pavement was steaming

Outro