You’d Take Me Home

 

 

You’d Take Me Home

 At times you’d fail to keep me warm,

And you were losing luster from your form.

But this one thing you’d do, you were faithful, you were true

In fairer weather or in storm:

  

You’d take me home, you’d take me home. 

O sturdy steed of steel and chrome, you’d take me home.

However far we wandered or we’d roam.

O faithful fendered friend, somehow you’d take me home.

 

 Sometimes it hurt my foolish pride

To be seen in such an ancient ride;

But it would be a bummer to put gas in a hummer,

And a Chevy I’ve already tried….

 

 Out you blazed in flying shards of glory

That we’ll remember now that you are gone.  

You took the tree that was meant for me

And proudly passed with all your hubcaps on!

 

The day of dread at last came near,

When you slipped forever out of gear.

Though it was not your fault, you sputtered to a halt,

But I was hoping for just one more year.

 

And when you’re tired and you can no longer roam,

I’ll take you home to gently lie

With axels up on blocks so high

In that great junkyard in the sky.  I’ll take you home.

I began this song as a silly homage to Blue Bessie, my beloved 1989 Toyota Corolla (the car that we drove away from our wedding in!) and it sadly anticipated the demise of that faithful, fendered friend.  Little did I know that her terminal event would be sooner than we all expected.  This song was begun before her death (as a result of the tree that fell on her during a flood), so that I had to change the verb tenses to all the lyrics!    The sight of that sturdy steed in the parking lot always gave me joy because I knew that I was going home to my family.