"Memory Machine" lyrics

It's older than that water tower we used to paint our names
Shakes at sixty miles an hour, never missed a home team game
Still kind of smells like wintergreen and empty cans of beer
It's got dirt on me from every street it's rolled down around here

There's a couple letters missing but you can make out Chevrolet
The paint is faded now but it shined up back in the day
Every time I turn that key it's summertime and I'm seventeen
I swear this old Silverado is a memory machine

I was fifteen minutes early picking her up for our first date
Her dad was pissed when I got her back home an hour late
Smelled like her for a couple days, sometimes it still does
Guess some things are built to last and some things are built to rust

There's a couple letters missing but you can make out Chevrolet
The paint is faded now but it shined up back in the day
Every time I turn that key she's sitting in that shotgun seat
I swear this old Silverado is a memory machine

Dad ain't around to fix it now so he passed it down to me
But he's still stitched in this thing like the leather in these seats
I can hear him say don't punch the clutch and ease up on that gas
Every time I grind these gears I swear I hear him laugh

There's a couple letters missing but you can make out Chevrolet
The paint is faded now but it shined up back in the day
Every time I turn that key I'm back home in East Tennessee
He's letting me drive, sitting on his knee
I swear this old Silverado is a memory machine