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A block of knotty pine and four plastic wheels
I can still smell the dust and the paint and the peels
Dad helped me carve it for the big race day
We put it on the track and sent it on its way
I lost the first place ribbon many years ago
When I started down this troubled road
Now I’m holding this token in my shaky hand
Wish somebody warned me but now i understand

It hurts like hell
To lose someone you love
It’s worse when you’re cursed
With a hand me down crutch
I wish i could go back
To those pinewood days
Find the right track and just
Drift away, drift away

There was a time where I thought I could feel no pain
Well I just found out it doesn’t work that way
Mistakes come to haunt you in the blink of an eye
The bottle seemed like a good place to hide
I wonder if I'll ever have kids of my own
We'd race the pine box derby before they're grown
And when they go off running down that same old track
I’ll give them a place they can always come back

It hurts like hell
To lose someone you love
It’s worse when you’re cursed
With a hand me down crutch
I wish i could go back
To those pinewood days
Find the right track and just
Drift away, drift away

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from Flying First Class (Expanded Edition), released May 3, 2019

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