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Pick Up Trucks

Mark Lawhorne

May 16, 2026

Genre: Country

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This came from one of Brett's "Kickstarters." He dared us to delve into these words "Pick Up Trucks Are..." and this was what I came up with.



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Friday night, got a half tank left

Couple cold ones sweating in an old ice chest

Dust on the tires, sunset glow

Heading nowhere down a backroad



She kicks off her shoes, puts her feet on the dash

Says take it slow, don’t let this pass

We find a spot where the map don’t care

Kill the lights, just open air



Pick up trucks are kinda like a home on wheels

Got a bed in the back where a country boy feels

Pick up trucks are kinda like a home on wheels

Got a bed in the back where a country boy feels

Like a king of the night with her and a beer



My T shirt and her sundress, a crumpled-up beautiful mess



No walls, no secrets, just a moment like this

Stars bearing witness every time we kiss

Ain’t a mansion around with a view like this



Yeah I’ve seen them houses up on top of the hill

With the iron gates and the million-dollar thrills

Crystal chandeliers and a long driveway

But they don’t know a thing about fire fly play



Yeah they got their walls and their locked front doors

Got their perfect life on them tiled floors

But they haven’t heard guitars playin’

Or felt the truck bed move when she leans in


Pickup trucks are kinda like a home on wheels

Got a bed in the back where a country boy feels

Like a king of the night with her and a beer


My T shirt and her sundress
more than just cotton and lycra in a moment like this


No walls, no secrets, just a moment like this

Stars bearing witness every time we kiss

Ain’t a mansion around with a view like this


If this is all I ever own, I guess I’m all set

A little rust on the frame and a little more debt

But I got her laugh and this tailgate view

And a sky full of dreams coming true


You can keep your elevators and your marble floors

Your high rise life and your department stores

I’ll take these tires on a dirt road twist

Yeah heaven don’t get better than this


Pick up trucks are kinda like a home on wheels

Got a bed in the back where a country boy feels

Like a king of the night with her and a beer


My T shirt and Her sundress make a crumpled up beautiful mess

No walls, no secrets, just a moment like this

Stars bearing witness every time we kiss


Nah, there ain’t a mansion around with a view like this…

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