Lyrics
The keys to the '78 Monte Carlo hang by the shop phone.
You got that look, I see it, we're not staying home.
Dad's yelling at the Chihuahuas game on the screen,
Got half a tank of gas and the engine's clean.
[Chorus]
Puente de las Américas, midnight in sight,
Just two ghosts in the green dashboard light.
You said, "Cayo, this is loco," with a smile in your tone.
Vámonos, before we're left all alone.
[Verse 2]
The air is thick with creosote, smells like it might rain.
Slide across the vinyl, cool against the heat-ache pain.
Your window's down, the Juárez lights a blurry streak,
You turn the busted knob, just static when it speaks.
[Bridge]
The engine's just a whisper, we kill the lights and coast
Past the sleeping dogs and the holy ghost
Painted on the warehouse wall, his hands are open wide.
There's no turning back this time.
[Outro]
Just the dust settling... and the click of the door.
You whisper back, "Alright."
About Cayo Cruz
Cayo Cruz was raised between his mother’s home in El Paso, Texas and his father’s auto body shop in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. He learned his first three chords on a dusty guitar kept in the shop office, its wood still smelling of gasoline and spray paint. After dropping out of community college, he started writing hushed, bilingual pop songs about the feeling of living on a hyphen, a resident of…
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Who is Cayo Cruz?
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