Drive Home
Unveiling the Intriguing Narrative: Drive Home by Carter Vail
Lyrics
Wake up, Virginia, is your daddy home?
Asking if Virginia is awake and if her father is at home.
Is your daddy home? Is your Daddy home?
Repetition, emphasizing the question about Virginia's father.
Did he turn out the lights and the telephone?
Wondering if Virginia's father turned off the lights and the phone.
And the telephone, and the telephone
Repetition, underscoring the inquiry about lights and the phone.
Come out Virginia come down the stairs
Inviting Virginia to come downstairs, suggesting she's going somewhere.
Hell I know your headed somewhere
Acknowledging Virginia's plans to go somewhere.
Come out, Virginia, what you waiting for?
Encouraging Virginia to come out, questioning what she's waiting for.
What you waiting for? What you waiting for?
Repetition, emphasizing the curiosity about what Virginia is waiting for.
Got your ball gown on and you locked the door
Describing Virginia wearing a ball gown and locking the door.
And you locked the door and you locked the door
Repetition, highlighting Virginia's action of locking the door.
Come out, Virginia, can't be so bad
Suggesting that whatever Virginia is doing can't be so bad.
But who am I to say you're wrong?
Recognizing the speaker's inability to judge whether Virginia is wrong.
And in the backseat all your clothes
Depicting clothes in the backseat resting on posters acquired at age sixteen.
Are resting on the posters that you got
Detailing the location of clothes on posters, suggesting a personal space.
When you turned sixteen
Referencing a significant event or milestone when Virginia turned sixteen.
And from the window of the kitchen
Describing the view from the kitchen window with parents and unfamiliar people.
Stand your parents and some people you've never seen
Highlighting the presence of parents and strangers in Virginia's life.
You're asking for another one
Expressing Virginia's desire for another experience or opportunity.
You're asking for a way to spend the night
Indicating Virginia's request for a way to spend the night.
If you're asking for another one
Repetition, emphasizing the desire for another opportunity to spend the night.
Come out, Virginia, if it seems so wrong
Encouraging Virginia to come out despite potential judgment.
Seems so wrong and it seems so wrong
Repetition, underlining the perceived wrongness of Virginia's actions.
And I'm just waiting for the rest to fall
Expressing the speaker's anticipation for a resolution or conclusion.
For the rest to fall, for the rest to fall
Repetition, emphasizing the expectation for a resolution or outcome.
Well maybe you were the best of me
Suggesting that Virginia may have been the best part of the speaker.
And maybe I'll learn, maybe I'll learn to crawl
Expressing a willingness to learn and grow, possibly from the experience.
Well maybe you were the best of me
Repetition, reiterating the idea that Virginia was the best part of the speaker.
If you're asking for another one
Reiteration of Virginia's request for another opportunity to spend the night.
You're asking for a way to spend the night
Emphasizing Virginia's desire for a way to spend the night.
If you're asking for another one
Repetition, underscoring Virginia's request for another opportunity.
You're asking for a way to spend the night
Restating Virginia's request for a way to spend the night.
If you're asking for another one
Reiteration, highlighting Virginia's persistent request for another opportunity.
You're asking for a way to spend the night
Emphasizing Virginia's continued desire for a way to spend the night.
If you're asking for another one
Repetition, reinforcing Virginia's ongoing request for another opportunity.
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