Sunset Vantage

[Chorus]
That slow-burn flicker in the cool night air
You hand me the key fob, I see the whole affair
Just a reservation for two, but the barometer's high
Watching your play from the corner of my eye

[Verse 1]
The gloss on that G-Wagon is still wet with the June gloom
Your expensive perfume hangs here in the valet fume
9:15 on the dash, the engine's just a low hum
You look at her like she's the only good that's ever gonna come

[Chorus]
That slow-burn flicker in the cool night air
You hand me the key fob, I see the whole affair
Just a reservation for two, but the barometer's high
Watching your play from the corner of my eye

[Verse 2]
I take the leather wheel, it's warmer than your fingers brushed
This kind of quiet's got the same weight as a river hushed
Right before the flood. "'Same time next Tuesday,'" you say it low
It ain't a question, just a current with nowhere else to go

[Bridge]
Out past the Chateau Marmont, a freight train calls its lonely sound
And for a second, I'm on Second Street on soggy ground
You think I'm just the guy who parks the car, and that's the angle
But I can feel the charge in the air before the wires tangle

[Outro]
Yeah, I see the picture.
From my sunset vantage.