Officer I Swear She's 19
Love's Twist in the Desert Night
Lyrics
Just another night, another bar, another town,
Setting the scene of a typical night in a bar in a new town.
I was talking to myself though the guys were all around,
The narrator is engrossed in his thoughts despite being surrounded by friends.
Then she walked up started dancing on the bar,
A woman joins the scene, dancing on the bar, grabbing the narrator's attention.
I showed her to my car,
The narrator and the woman decide to leave together, heading to his car.
All her high school friends started coming toour shows,
Word spreads, and the woman's high school friends start attending the narrator's band's shows.
I admit they caught my eye and my wallet and my nose,
The narrator acknowledges the attractiveness of the high school friends but hints at negative consequences.
But no one comes close to the girl that I loved first,
The narrator expresses a special connection with a girl from his past.
Maybe I'm just cursed,
The narrator contemplates if his situation is a result of a curse.
Officer I swear she said she's 19,
The narrator claims that the woman assured him she was 19 years old.
Didn't check her ID,
The narrator didn't verify the woman's age by checking her ID.
You know that you would do the same,
Asserting that others would act similarly in the narrator's situation.
Finally a girl who looks up to me,
The narrator finds satisfaction in a girl who looks up to him.
She can't see through me,
The girl is naive, unable to see through the narrator's intentions.
She can't see anything I don't want her to see,
The narrator controls what the girl perceives, creating a one-sided view.
We always manage to agree,
Despite differences, they always find common ground and agreement.
Finally I saw the light we didn't have to wait,
The narrator has an epiphany, deciding not to wait and to take immediate action.
Come on darling pack your bags we'll move to another state,
Planning to move to another state with the girl.
New Mexico says you can marry at 16,
Referencing the legal age to marry in New Mexico, indicating the girl might be younger.
Now I got my mini-queen,
The narrator sees the girl as his "mini-queen" after moving to New Mexico.
In New Mexico life is dry there's not much grass,
Describing the dry and barren life in New Mexico.
and my little cutie earns our rent she's pumpinggas,
The girl now works, pumping gas to support their life.
This morning she met the cutest girl at a bar,
The girl meets someone new, possibly creating tension in the relationship.
Guess we have to move to Utah
The need to move to Utah, possibly as a result of the new acquaintance in the bar.
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