Dashboard Altar

This is song #31 in my attempt to write and share a new song every Monday in 2025. The prompt this week was “Vacation” To listen to the other 30 Songs (plus a few extras) CLICK HERE

I’d love to know what you think if you have time to listen. https://threadbarecreative.com/track/4394662/dashboard-altar-wildwood-week-31

The best vacations for me involve loading up for a long drive to somewhere wonderfully ordinary. Give me an audible book, coffee and some snacks and I’m good to go… wherever. Fingerpicking is not my strong suit, so after countless takes, my fingers died, and I gave up doing anything but letting chords ring out in the chorus. Hopefully my poor playing doesn’t get in the way of the song.

LYRICS:

Verse 1Never sailed up the Amalfi Coast; Haven't zip-lined in Costa Ricaor watched the sun in Santorini; or seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa Mount Everest is way too tall; it's so expensive in Dubai But I’ve been to Minnesota, north on Highway 29

Verse 2I’ve never seen the cherry blossoms that line the streets of KyotoOr gazed at rainbow northern lights dancing in the sky in TromsøNo hot dogs up in Reykjavik, I haven’t skied the Highlands Bowl But I’ve driven for twelve hours straight in my little Kia Soul

ChorusI sit behind my dashboard altarOn cloth-covered bucket seatsListening to AudibleAnd eating truck stop treatsI don’t need to go to Parisor float down the river Seine I just like the drivingIt doesn’t matter where it ends

Verse 3I haven’t hiked to Machu Picchu; never snorkeled coral reefsOff the coast of Zanzibar; I’ve never heard of the MaldivesI always thought that Patagonia was just a clothing brandBut I’ve been up to Lake Michigan; walked barefoot in the sand

BridgeRoad signs pray like rosaries; GPS speaks the liturgyI don’t need a destination; I just need you and me

Final ChorusLet's sit behind my dashboard altarOn cloth-covered bucket seatsListening to AudibleAnd eating truck stop treatsWe don’t need to go to Parisor float down the river Seine We just like the drivingSo, let’s hit the road again

TagWe just like the drivingIt doesn’t matter where it ends

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