Mt. Misery

I tamed the serpent of the Garden State Parkway one night
3am blissed out without sleep
Can't keep clean my sights
Smacks of a dream from years back
Speeding down 70 blacktop
When opposite trees crowd closer
Until Mt Misery wraps its dark arms around me
And I think I'm dead for certain
But in the smell of burnt leaves
There's always a person
That springs to mind for one last "hi"
And she's hitting my phone up tonight
Flipping over picking up
When the last one shit out my heart in a spit cup
Try to think of anything else but
You're the one I dream of in close-up
Black and blue grain
Fog overhangs
Cool of the fall breeze on your skin
Whipping up hair
The caring begins
Trying shit on
Making shit up
Impressing you in
A daydream hookup
'cause I'm too afraid
To do it awake
What if I try
To build you a shrine
And it never quite
Feels like the first time
Would you let it loose
To die in the pines?
It's just one thing
Or another
I can't go on and on and feel this way
I run faster
And get nowhere