I Drive

Feeling down, I look around at the world passing before me

The sun on its fatalistic arc, streams light through aluminum blinds

A fading afternoon, where nothing was done but wasting time

I slip on my shoes and sunglasses, and then grab my keys.

 

My car is there waiting, for a destination unknown

I start the engine, shift into drive and begin to roam

Where I'm going I have no clue

The walls were closing in, and I had to see something new.

 

I drive into the sunset not looking back

All the way to Ohio, until it's pitch black

I was racing the sun to California, but it was speed I lacked

So I return home in the dead of night, the loser left on the track.

 

I was hoping to flee this arranged marriage to pain

But as I enter the room she embraces me again

This half lived life will not be my fate

I weep until sunrise, planning another escape.