Song lyrics part 7. This is emotionally heavy lyric. It's talking about the guilt of a parent after the divorce. Parent wants to, tries to fix the damage somehow for his kids. Johnny Cash territory. This is the type of lyric that you just don't know if it's good or complete crap, some lines are bit too simple and clumsy when i read it now, but the main idea is sound i think. I wrote this around 2002. This would work best if sung by a woman like Dar Williams, Mary-Chapin Carpenter or something of a that style.

                                         M o t o r c y c l e s

 

Jack and Jill decided it was that day

The priest crossed his fingers on a holy pray

Everything seemed fine, and the child was born

To see all the fightning, he started to grow up wrong

 

Motorcycles, motorcycles, motorcycles

Daddy's gonna buy him, a motorcycle

 

Jack got drinking, and Jill got a new man

In the courtroom, united they stand

Until the judge, made his orders with a grin

He said in the good old days, they used to call all this a sin

 

Motorcycles, motorcycles, motorcycles

Daddy's gonna buy him a motorcycle

 

Now Jack lives up the road nearby

With guilt bigger that catches any eye

His son is now a man, and sees all it through

Desperation of a man, not knowing what to do

 

Motorcycles, motorcycles, motorcycles

Daddy's gonna buy him, a motorcycle