Linda Blair Blue

Drove in to pick my girl up,
Outside a downtown bar,
Rollin' in my M4 beemer coupé,
(Pretty damn impressive car,)
But she was already wasted,
'Cause she'd been out to play,
Catchin' a buzz with those jerks from her job,
...Then she really ruined my day.

That girl been sick in my car, man,
That girl been sick in my car,
Headin' down the highway we didn't get far,
When she pull a Linda Blair right there in my car.

Too many Piña coladas,
Too much-a VK Blue,
So many drinks in SO many colors,
Jesus, what am I gonna do?
She got it on my upholstery,
She got it over my mat,
Somehow she got some into the glove box,
How the hell she manage that?

That girl been sick in my car, man,
That girl been sick in my car,
Headin' down the highway we didn't get far,
When she pull a Linda Blair right there in my car.

That girl been sick in my car, man,
That girl been sick in my car,
When I got her home I said to my wife,
"That girl grounded for the rest of her life!"

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[notes]
I appreciate that "been sick in" is more of a UK construct/idiom...
I just preferred the way it sounded. It made the narrator appear more
sad than angry and (I felt) conveyed more sympathy for "the girl" than
"threw up in" which was the obvious alternative given the somewhat
trans-Atlantic verncular I ended up with trying to be "bluesy".

Linda Blair played the young girl that was posessed in the classic
1973 film "The Exorcist". There were a number of memorable and
horrific things that happened to the character (some of which I
certainly could not mention here) but one of them was incredibly
forceful projectile vomiting - hence "pull a Linda Blair".

VK Blue is an "alcopop". I actually wrote down "wkd blue" (which was
another) but fact checked myself to see if they still make it - they
don't. Same sort of deal though, cheap vodka-based product mixed with
sweet fruity syrups marketed at under-age drinkers though the makers
and marketeers deny this like they do with "bubble gum" flavored vapes.
FFS.

An "M4 beemer coupé" is a nice car made by the good folks at BMW.
[img]https://d193ppza2qrruo.cloudfront.net/production/images/BMW-M4-front-side.jpg[/img]

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that movie scared me for many years :o the projectile vomit was something one always remembers :D lots of interesting things happened while making that movie as well :o cool lyrics BM

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Thanks Nick :) . Yes, "The curse of the Exorcist" quite a few people that worked on it died before their time. The media loves a story like that but still...

I think the scenes involving the posession still stand up today even with the very early '70s effects and numerous imitations. I snuck in to a theater to see it at (maybe) 13 yo - the 360 head-turn was probably what freaked me out the most.

Haven't been tempted to check out the remake yet.

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