Tom DeLuca: Down to the wire [lyrics]

Tom DeLuca: Down to the wire [lyrics]

Tom DeLuca

Down to the wire

We used to put the top down

The engine roared like thunder

Livin' for the summer night

And the spell it put us under

Thirty-dollar eight-track

Sounded out the battle cry

As we fought each and every windmill

Of our own design

I can still remember things she said

When we used to set the streets on fire

How we tried to chase the dawn to bed

Down to the wire

Power-driven exiles

Runnin' for the shadows

She'd look at me like Sandra Dee

While I'd strike a pose like Brando

Parked beneath the bleachers

The first night that she touched me

Fuel-injected, nervous love

The sweat hung down like honey

I can still remember things she said

Even though I know that youth's a liar

The pictures just roll inside my head

I'm down to the wire

I wonder what she's doin'

Bet she's doin' great

Somewhere amid suburban bliss

While I'm stuck in yesterday

I can still remember things she said

Even though I know that youth's a liar

The pictures just roll inside my head

I'm down to the wire

Inside my head

Down to the wire