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Father's Day · Pop

Dad, I've been thinking about those drives a lot lately. Windows down, your rock station up way too loud, you drumming the wheel on every chorus. I didn't see it back then, but those drives were the only place we really talked — easier to say the real stuff when we're both just watching the road. I've got my own keys now, my own place, but the second one of those songs comes on I'm sixteen in your passenger seat again. You taught me more out on that highway than you'll ever know. Love you, Dad.

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Background

Owen is 23 and just got his first apartment, and what he misses most are the long drives with his dad David — windows down, classic rock turned up, his dad drumming the wheel at every chorus. Those drives were the only place the two of them ever really talked. For Father's Day he turned all those highways into an upbeat pop song.

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Dad, I've been thinking about those drives a lot lately. Windows down, your rock station up way too loud, you drumming the wheel on every chorus. I didn't see it back then, but those drives were the only place we really talked — easier to say the real stuff when we're both just watching the road. I've got my own keys now, my own place, but the second one of those songs comes on I'm sixteen in your passenger seat again. You taught me more out on that highway than you'll ever know. Love you, Dad.

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