A Sense of Doubt blog post #2974 - "Last Chance Texaco" by Rickie Lee Jones - Music Monday for 2304.10

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2974 - "Last Chance Texaco" by Rickie Lee Jones - Music Monday for 2304.10

This was going to be part of the music week that I did a little while ago, but I postponed it.

Great song.

Thanks for tuning in.

I use this song a lot in my classes to tell students it's their last chance for submitting work.

The Last Chance Texaco.

Last gas station for 500 miles.

The Last Chance Texaco, Rickie Lee Jones

Michael Clinton

 Sep 23, 2017

I love the song by Rickie Lee Jones  and these images, including stills from the film "The Misfits" of Marilyn and Monty , all of which I borrowed from the net and tried to put together,  music and photos,  in a meaningful way.       

A long stretch of headlights

Bends into I-9

Tiptoe into truck stops

And sleepy diesel eyes

Volcanoes rumble in the taxi

And 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

Last chance

She ain't soundin' too good,

Your last chance

To trust the man with the star

You've found the last chance Texaco

Well, he tried to be Standard

He tries to be Mobil

He tried living in a world

And in a shell

There was this block-busted blonde

He loved her - free parts and labor

But she broke down and died

And threw all the rods he gave her

But this one ain't fuel-injected

Her plug's disconnected

She gets scared and she stalls

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

Pullin' out of the last chance Texaco

The last chance

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