Days of Graduation
Echoes of Tragedy: Bobby's Joy Ride and the Night Free Bird Wouldn't Stop
Lyrics
Bobby went out for a joy ride with my best girl
Bobby went on a joy ride with the narrator's best girl.
Left me at the party,
The narrator was left at the party.
He was my best friend and I miss him.
Bobby was the narrator's best friend, and the narrator misses him.
It was almost June and the moon illuminated the rain-soaked streets like a candy wrapper.
It was almost June, and the moon illuminated rain-soaked streets.
I guess that's why Bobby had his lights off,
Bobby had his lights off, possibly due to the moon's brightness.
Tear-assing threw the back part of town and those deserted country roads where me and Bobby tear-assed so many times before.
Bobby was driving fast through familiar country roads.
Sometimes with my best girl and sometimes Bobby had him one too.
Bobby sometimes had the narrator's best girl with him during these drives.
But this night he banked that curve just a little too hard and that 442 went airborne,
Bobby took a curve too hard, and his car went airborne, resulting in a fatal accident.
Hit a telephone pole and split in two, Bobby's skull was split right in two,
The car split in two, and Bobby suffered a fatal head injury.
And my girl was pinned in her seat, partially embedded in the dashboard
The narrator's best girl was trapped in the car and screaming.
And for the next twenty minutes the only sound in the night were her screams.
For the next twenty minutes, the only sounds were the girl's screams and the spinning wheel.
And the sound of the wheel still spinning.
The wheel continued to spin as a haunting reminder of the accident.
In a little while the ambulance came and the sound of its siren mixed
Eventually, an ambulance arrived, adding its siren to the chaotic sounds.
With the screaming girl and the spinning wheel.
The ambulance siren, the girl's screams, and the spinning wheel created a disturbing symphony.
But when the story was told the next day at the graduation ceremony,
The incident became a story shared at the graduation ceremony.
Everyone said that when the ambulance came
During the ambulance arrival, people claimed they could still hear "Free Bird" playing on the stereo.
The paramedics could hear "Free Bird" still playing on the stereo.
You know it's a very long song.
"Free Bird" is mentioned again as a very long song.
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