I can't believe how reluctant the warmth has been As we wait And the shitty cars that jumped the gun They blast their stereos till the windows shake With the sound Yesterday you and me drove out to the place Where the sun Shoots down from outer space And shines off everyone standing there Dumbfounded in drive-thru lanes Or the hospital parking lot On the brink of Pontiac Well, I still remember how it used to be When the world was still young It broke in the morning It settled in the dusk With the taste of metal on its tongue I buried an old lifetime in the off-ramp's fresh overgrowth mess Where blue jays and cardinals and starlings and darlings of the scene obsolesce As the night shuts down all the big-box stores open up for the day As the day wears on all the traffic lights dangle and blink their lives away We're dumbfounded in a set of clothes That were bought years ago From some bargain bin That our grandmother's knew before they'd go home I still remember how it used to be When the world was still young It woke in the morning It settled in the dusk With the taste of metal on its tongue