Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - 'Cars in the Desert' (Official Lyric Video)

“Get Used to the Night" is from the Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats new album 'South of Here', OUT NOW

Animation by Mark Neeley.

Text layout by Rett Rogers.

"Cars in the Desert" is written by Nathaniel Rateliff.

Produced by Brad Cook
Mixed and Engineered by Paul Voran
Assistant Engineered by Mario Ramirez
Additional Assistant engineering: Mark Anderson
Additional Tenor Saxophone: Matt Douglas
Mastered by Chris Colbert at Numberstation, Eugene, OR

Recorded at Sonic Ranch, Tornillo, TX and Broken Creek, Littleton, CO
Mixed at Puff City, Durham, NC

Label: Stax Records
Artist Management: 7S Management

LYRICS:

Remember we were driving through the night
Pretending we were lovers lost in sleep
I think you said that “most of the time I’m right”
Let go the wheel and maybe we’ll switch sides

Well you were crawling out to raise the dead
And the ghost of you never left

Tell me I’m a good man
Tell me I’m a good man
Tell me I’m a good man
Tell me I’m a good good man

I couldn’t find the light myself
It lead too falling down the stairs
And the stitches in my head and not a lesson learned back then

Well you were crawling into your own way
All the wounded you left downtown
I can taste your lips and not your name
It stains the corner of every page

Tell me I’m a good man
Tell me I’m a good man
Tell me I’m a good man
Tell me I’m a good good man

They said they hid you somewhere I didn’t know
I dug everywhere through the dust and the mud
I turned it all over until my spade and hands were broken

I remember we were lying in your bed
I could feel your feet against my feet
And the sweat the fled our skin
Ice you rubbed into my chest

And like a fire upon your sleeve
You’re gonna burn to put it out
And maybe someday when I can’t sing
I’ll go back to turning over ground

Tell me I’m a good man
Tell me I’m a good man
Tell me I’m a good man
Tell me I’m a good good man


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[RexEBikes]

Man thank you Nathaniel and thank your parents for taking such good care of you. May God bless your path and all you see

[UnderknowDog]

What, out of many things, I love about this song is that it plays so well with another song from his catalog: “Tell Me Something”. Both are even more sublime as they are connected.

[gordanalozinski]

Thanks for your music and we love you inZagreb, Croatia, smole country in the middle of Europ!!!!

[SPORE_SPORTS]

Thank You for all of you and your bands beautiful music!

[Aridryl]

Y'all have such a unique relationship with music and it's absolutely beautiful, fantastic soul driven music, we love y'all ❤

[mm_]

Can't wait for Eye to Eye! Loving the new album!

[carmenbellinghausenNRNSFan]

🎉 love this. Looking forward to next week.

[AmandaJYoungs]

Very catchy! I'll be singing this one for days now. Thanks, guys - more great music to be the soundtrack to my life.

[MadAsHoly]

This song is so sexy and takes my heart away.
Thanks again for all your great songs😊

[erikwhitmore]

Hey alright! First comment! Looking forward to this new track.

[rafdes]

Least favorite album you guys have put out. That’s ok though, they can’t all be great.