Lyrics
The Michigan Central clock is frozen at a quarter-to-four.
Got the passenger window taped up from the week before.
The bass from this bootleg cassette rattles the dash.
Feels good, like a secret I ain't trading for cash.
Feels like the first clean breath after breaking the surface.
For two-point-six miles, I got my own damn purpose.
[Chorus]
Just one more time around the block for me.
Just one more minute that I get to be free.
[Verse 2]
Then I see your lamp through the sycamore branches, cuttin' the gloom.
The one we patched up for your third-grade bedroom.
And the joy in my chest just collapses and rusts.
Turns from a rare bloom to a handful of dust.
You once whispered, "You're the only key that fits this door."
But the weight of that lock ain't what I'm driving for.
[Bridge]
This isn't freedom. This isn't grace.
It's just circling the edges of the same damn place.
[Outro]
The engine cuts out.
The house holds its breath.
About Stevie Wunder
Stevie Wunder was raised as the de facto parent to his six younger siblings in a small house on Detroit's East Side. He taught himself to play a beat-up clavinet in the hours after everyone else was asleep, turning the weight of familial responsibility into a sound steeped in Motown-funk and soulful resilience. His music is for anyone who's ever been the 'responsible one,' a joyful noise from the…
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