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The first time that I lived in a car
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I bought it for thirty dollars it was a little Ford Escort
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I slept in the parking lot of the park
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and I tried not to drain my batteries, remember to pull out the key
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before I fell asleep with the radio on
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The worst part about living in a car
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is how hot it gets when the sun comes up
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and you can't stretch your legs out very far
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I would wake up every day, with my knees in pain
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turn the key and hope the thing would start
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Then my friend moved in with me
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we were happy as sardines
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he had a job as a playground supervisor
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but he only worked an hour a day
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I'd drop him off then I'd kill some time shoplifting at the mall
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we both had our ways of bringing home the pay
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but winter was on the way
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and we were too big for our tiny little tank
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so we found a place to live
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we signed a lease and joined the army of the walking dead that pay rent
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The next time that I lived in a car
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I bought it from a cemetery
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it used to carry coffins right up to their graves
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it became a home to me, sleeping on the near west streets
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and I could stretch my legs out all the way
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It was cold it was cold
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but I loved it when it snow-o-o-ed
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because the snow covered up all the windows
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and no one would know, that that wagon was my home
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I could sleep in peace with the ghosts
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I traded it in
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so that I could get a van
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because if you're gonna play in a punk rock band
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then someone's always gotta buy the van
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it was fine by me because it seemed like compared to living in a car a van
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was gonna be a mansion
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And that van became my home
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for about two years or so
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I lived happy I lived rent free
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the day that I give up I know where I'll end up that van is in front of my
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house waiting for me