$2 Novels-Darden Smith

[ti:$2 Novels] [ar:Darden Smith] [al:Ojo] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]$2 Novels - Darden Smith [00:12.17]I turned right on first left on white oak [00:17.97] [00:19.94]Back to my old neighborhood [00:22.57] [00:25.00]I saw old Doc Randolph [00:27.30] [00:29.04]He was mowing his yard [00:30.15] [00:32.29]He's kept it up the best he could [00:35.11] [00:38.09]And Evelyn his wife of thirty two years [00:41.23]She smiled as I drove by [00:43.19] [00:44.21]She waved from her front porch screen [00:48.36] [00:50.13]She went back to reading her two dollar novel [00:56.00] [00:57.23]Playing with her wedding ring [01:00.77] [01:03.05]A few houses needed painting [01:05.69] [01:06.29]A few gates were unhinged [01:08.61] [01:09.72]But generally the place looked the same [01:13.28] [01:15.86]The driveways were full of bikes and Buick sedans [01:21.56] [01:22.40]Things any good American would claim [01:26.20] [01:28.75]And all them other lovers [01:30.76] [01:31.60]That married for cover [01:34.21] [01:34.82]They were out for the sacred nightly stroll [01:39.21] [01:40.98]They were wishing they were characters in two dollar novels [01:46.90] [01:48.25]Wishing for their weight in gold [01:51.59] [02:08.14]Now Mary Elizabeth [02:08.99] [02:10.72]She's my high school sweetheart [02:12.07] [02:14.21]She married my best high school friend [02:17.71] [02:19.67]He manages the hardware store [02:23.67]She became a nurse [02:24.86] [02:26.11]And I became a memory to them [02:29.86] [02:32.51]And all my other buddies [02:34.57] [02:35.09]They just got lost in outer space [02:37.51] [02:38.44]And they ran off and served their country well [02:42.67] [02:44.70]They're all fighting in a war of two dollar novels [02:50.72] [02:51.80]Where only the toughest live to tell [02:55.65] [02:57.35]So I turned right on white oak left on first [03:03.24] [03:05.53]Out of that old neighborhood [03:08.27] [03:10.81]I left Doctor and [03:12.25]Mrs Randolph sipping ice tea on their sun porch [03:16.44] [03:17.35]Wondering if I'd ever come to any good [03:20.92] [03:23.67]And on a thousand shady streets [03:25.96] [03:27.10]In a thousand other towns [03:29.32] [03:30.04]Now people Lord they're doing just the same [03:33.92] [03:36.40]They're all living their lives in two dollar novels [03:42.50] [03:43.54]Wondering why the world is so insane [03:47.48] [03:49.47]They're all living their lives in two dollar novels [03:56.25]And wondering why there's nothing left to gain