"A Kid in a Car"

I still consider this song unfinished. I had two lines (“If I was just a kid in a car, And you were just a girl with a candy bar”) in my head for years, but could never build a proper song around them. Eventually, I just dashed something off as a hasty wrap up because I needed to move on. I hate giving up on a song, but sometimes I just need to throw in the towel and make room in my head for other projects.

A Kid in a Car

© 1990 Brian Hutzell

Does she know what it’s like

To be chased through the night

Does she know what darkness hides?

My story of crime

Has no place in her life

Her tale has one in mine

If I was just a kid in a car

And you were just a girl with a candy bar

We could chase a different star

Where to? No one can tell

Maybe we could wear fancy clothes

And be seen at all the finest shows

But I guess we’ll never know

I suppose it’s just as well

’Cause when two people are not two people

But two selves trying to be someone else

When these two people lose their ideals

Nothing’s left

If I was just a kid in a car

And you were just a girl with a candy bar

We could chase a different star

Where to? No one can tell

Maybe we could wear fancy clothes

And be seen at all the finest shows

But I guess we’ll never know

I suppose it’s just as well