Jackson Browne – The Naked Ride Home (Ukulele)

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"Just take off your clothes and I'll drive you home,"  I said

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Knowing she never could pass on a dare.

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And knowing it sounded more desperate than reckless or bold

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I just put it out there cold, too far gone to care.

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My eyes on the road, she slid herself down in the seat

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And a vision of paradise swung into view.

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Across those five lanes not one driver glanced over to see

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The beauty known only to me, and a big rig or two.

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On that freeway the light was receding

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Her beauty, a sight so misleading

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I failed to hear the heart that was beating alone

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On the naked ride home.

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With the trace of a smile and that defiant look in her eye

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She hurtled through space in a world of her own.

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And turning aside my caress spoke of all that she'd not yet done

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As if I was the doubting one, who would have to be shown.

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She gathered her clothes and ran through the yard in the dark

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Up onto the porch like a flash, then inside.

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Then one room at a time I watched every light in our house come on

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Like the truth that would eventually dawn, forcing me to decide.