Frozen Car

I can drive and you will sleep

Hunched over the wheel in a cold vinyl seat

Radio cackling as I turn the wheel

Hit the defrost and no warmth we feel

And in the truth of your stupid smile

I see the gas gauge hasn't worked for awhile

Cold tires roll over gravel and snow

As we shoot out of town in a silver arrow

 

Pray for the warm sun to thaw the spit from your teeth And for the warm sun in a frozen car's speed

 

You stood in front of the frozen car

Lamp lights like fireflies in a jar

Thumbing the prairie night for a lift

Cursing the country for this endlessness

Turn the wheel into the nearest field

Drive this frozen car until your hands you can't feel

eyelid search beams through wisps of snow

driving this frozen car with nowhere to go

Pray for the warm sun to thaw the spit from your teeth And the warm sun in a frozen car's speed