El Camino – Lyrics
Artist: Elizabeth Cook
Album: Welder (2010)
Songwriter: Elizabeth Cook
Total Time: 2:44
Structure: V | V | CH | V | CH | V | V | CH
El Camino
VERSE
I know this guy, he’s all wrong for me [A]
He wears shirts that are trippin’ on LSD. [A]
I must be high as a kite on diesel fumes [B]
He got me sportin’ bell bottoms and braids to school. [B]
VERSE
I never thought he’d get this far [C]
Certainly not in that kind of funky-ass car. [C]
He’s been pickin’ me up everyday at the curb [D]
In his nineteen seventy-two re-furb. [D]
CHORUS
El Camino (brown and tangerine) [E] | [A]
El Camino (drinkin’ gasoline) [E] | [A]
El Camino (lean and obscene) [E] | [A]
El Camino [E]
VERSE
I told him your car is creepy man, [F]
And not in a gangsta’ kinda way, but in a PERV kinda way. [G]
You got a lot of nerve drivin’ that kind of car [C]
And takin me fishing out to the park. [C]
You’re like some dude on blow in that movie Boogie Nights [H]
And this Friday night you wanna go to the fights in your. . . [H]
CHORUS
El Camino (brown and tangerine) [E] | [A]
El Camino (drinkin’ gasoline) [E] | [A]
El Camino (lean and obscene) [E] | [A]
El Camino [E]
VERSE
After Saturday matinee roller derby [I]
We went parking and things got blurry. [I]
I thought man I can’t get much hotter [J]
And then I caught a whiff of pina colada. [J]
And we were making love in the disco era, [K]
And he was Travolta and I was Farrah. [K]
I was like, man – what is happening here? [L]
Dude must of put a Quaalude in my beer. [L]
And if I wake up married, I’ll have to annul it [M]
Right now my hands are in his mullet. [M]
CHORUS
In that Camino (brown and tangerine) [E] | [A]
El Camino (drinkin’ gasoline) [E] | [A]
Camino (lean and obscene) [E] | [A]
El Camino [E]
OUTTRO
El Camino (brown and tangerine) [E] | [A]
Camino (lean and obscene) [E] | [A]
El Camino (drinkin’ gasoline) [E] | [A]
El Camino (brown and tangerine) [E]
Songwriter: Elizabeth Cook
Lyrics © 2010 Thirty One Tigers
POV | Perspective: 1st Person | Internal
BPM: 141
Times Title In Song: 16
—– WORD COUNTS —–
Total Word Count: 275
1 Syllable Words: 187 (68%)
3+ Syllable Words: 37 (14%)
: 89 (32%)Long Words 7+ Characters: 34 (13%)
Short Words <=3 Characters: 134 (49%)
—– EASY TO UNDERSTAND? —–
Reading Ease Score: 74.3
Reading Level: 7th Grade
Elizabeth Cook explaining the song:
“It was a very easy song to write. It was one of those, sort of, 30-minute moments, where it all came out in the order it is on the song. I was sitting in a park in East Nashville, and realized there were a lot of people out there sort of cruising around, checking each other out and stuff. It really surprised me that that was going on. It was a creepy scene, with a lot of funky cars and stuff and I just started with that first line (‘I know this guy, he’s all wrong for me’) and it all came exactly like in a record.”
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