Takes Me Back Lyrics

Fifteen years old

But it's got less than thirty thousand miles on it

Made in two thousand and five

But it drives just like I remember way back when

I was a just a kid

Top down I ride around town

Sitting down in the same leather seat that he did

Been driving it every day

But I can't shake the way that it still smells like him

Yeah the smell of him

Takes me

Back to eight years old

Little toothpick legs stuffed into the backseat

Back to fighting with my brother

Over who would get to wear the cool sunglasses

Back to promising that

Grandma would never find out that he was

Driving us so fast

It takes me back

The speakers are a little old

But it's always loaded with six CDs

Blasting Abbey Road and Slowhand

And all the other ones we used to sing

And suddenly

It takes me

Back to Chopsticks lessons

And serenade sessions on his grand piano

Back to talking about records

And why they sound so much better on vinyl

Back to learning that music

Ain't something to be kept to yourself

Or stored up on the rack

It takes me back

But I'm

Getting tired of driving this car alone

And I

Wish that I could go

Back to before I knew

What the inside of a hospice looked like

Back to before I'd learned

The meaning of words like metastasizing cells

Back to eight years old

Little toothpick legs stuffed into the backseat

Back to fighting with my brother

Over who would get to wear the cool sunglasses

Back to my arms around his waist

And a smile on his face

And back to never looking back

Take me back

Back

Take me back