The Last Chance Texaco

The Last Chance Texaco - Rickie Lee Jones

A long stretch of headlights bends into I 9

They tiptoe into truck stops

And sleepy diesel eyes

Volcanoes rumble in the taxi

An glow in the dark

Camels in the driver's seat

A slow easy mark

But you ran out of gas

Down the road a piece

Then the battery went dead

And now the cable won't reach

It's your last chance

To check under the hood

Your last chance

She ain't sounding too good

Your last chance

To trust the man with the star

Cause you've found

The last chance Texaco

The last chance

Well he tried to be standard

He tried to be mobile

He tried living in a world and in a shell

There was this block busted blonde

He loved her free parts and labor hood

She broke down and died

She threw all the rods that he gave her

But this one ain't fuel injected

Her plug is disconnected

She gets scared and she stalls

But she just needs a man that's all

It's her last chance

Her timing's all wrong

Her last chance

She can't idle this long

Her last chance

Turn her over and go

Pulling out of the last chance Texaco

The last chance