Lobster Pots & Minivans
Downeast Royalty
Alarm at six. Coffee in a chipped blue mug. This is the anthem of every Maine family trying to hold it all together with rubber bands and pure stubbornness.
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[Verse 1] Alarm at six Coffee in a chipped blue mug Frost on the windshield June claims it’s spring Lobster pots stacked Higher than the Subaru Kids ask “Do crabs have moms?” I say “We don’t have time for this”
[Chorus] Lobster pots and minivans Chaotic dinners Burned-out pans (hey!) Ketchup stains on playoff plans We’re holding it together with rubber bands Baseball cleats in the frying pan Somehow laughing as hard as we can Yeah This is the kingdom Of lobster pots and minivans
[Verse 2] Drive thru pharmacy Mascara in the rearview He says “I can’t find my glove” It’s under last year’s homework Long winter brain Counting canned soup like treasure Sun sets at four-thirty Kids ask “Was there ever light?”
[Chorus] Lobster pots and minivans Chaotic dinners Burned-out pans (oh yeah) Science fair glued to the cereal box Practice schedules taped to the locks Frozen fries Last clean pan Somehow laughing as hard as we can Yeah This is the kingdom Of lobster pots and minivans
[Bridge] [Band drops to moody half-time groove under low family chatter] “Call your sister” “Who took my charger?” “Please stop licking the window” “I am not a snack” Snowbanks like small disasters Mailbox buried til July I mutter “This is fine” And it mostly is
[Chorus] Lobster pots and minivans Chaotic dinners Burned-out plans (hey!) Homework Tantrums Marching band I’m steering with a grocery hand Cold dark Long-term span Somehow loving as hard as I can Yeah This is the kingdom Of lobster pots and minivans
[Outro] Wall of fuzz Kids scream-singing off-key I’m queen of this cul-de-sac Crowned in laundry Lobster pots Minivans I hit the blinker And start again