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Caroline, Letha, here is my take on this song.
Firstly, it's a very good, original and the vocals are outstanding - how that little guy with the guitar in the avatar manages to sing like that is beyond me!
It's a song aimed at ladies obviously, but here's my man's take on it.
This lady is not happy with her mechanic, she takes her car in for service and all he ever does is fiddle around with the bodywork, rev the engine a little bit, quickly dips in the thing he uses to measure the oil with, then that's that it.
But the car keeps on breaking down, every time she revs it and gets excited - 'cos she likes driving fast - it limply breaks down at the side of the road, with a few puffs of smoke coming out of it.
As a listener, I felt the big moment - where she tells him she'll get a new mechanic if he doesn't start servicing her car properly - should have come quicker in the song. And then after this the rest of the song could take on a different feel - because he has agreed to her demands. The drum beat could perhaps speed up, and she can start singing lyrics that indicate she is now VERY happy with the service he is performing on her engine... then perhaps there should be a final climax when the engine is being revved so hard it blows a gasket, and there is oil and all other kinds of fluids going all over the place. And then right at the end... silence, other than the sound of a cigarette being puffed by both the mechanic and lady, content at what they have achieved together.
Just some thoughts, I might have totally misread the song and not understood it at all :-)
Lucian.
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