Driver Tonight

Here's a song I used to sing with my dad
I'm singing now with a girl with a flower for a name
Watching her lay on the carpet, in for the night
Christmas lights lining the room in May

There's a vague scent since the years before
A pheromone trail that directed me nowhere
I sulked on over to a city made of twilight
Just a poor ol' mitty riding on a lucky mare

I can't stand, I can't listen
I can't remember your words of wisdom
It's been a long time since I saw you as a driver
As I sat in the front seat, born not a beggar

The neon is never all I need
Steel town blood is all I'll bleed
A flaneur with good taste in friends
Will you be my driver tonight?

Another city block I've never walked down
Still familiar to the paragon lurching in my head

I still see your faces on every lonely passerby
Ripping part of my heart out for having been misled


I can't stand, I can't listen
I can't remember your words of wisdom
It's been a long time since I saw you as a driver
As I sat in the front seat, born not a beggar

The neon is never all I need
Steel town blood is all I'll bleed
A flaneur with good taste in friends
Will you be my driver tonight?


Here's a song I used to sing with my dad
I'm singing now with a girl with a flower for a name
Watching her lay on the carpet, in for the night
Christmas lights lining the room in May