Lyrics
The ‘check engine’ light on the Pinto dash is my only halo now.
Expired registration taped over the glove box latch, somehow.
I take the long way home past the Nalley Valley viaduct hum,
Just to get this one part right, to prove that I’ve finally won.
[Chorus]
And I hit the high note for the empty passenger seat.
A victory lap on cracked asphalt, a quiet, furious heat.
[Verse 2]
The low-fuel warning's been on since Tuesday, a single, blinking eye.
The bass line vibrates the door panel, a pathetic battle cry.
You’d say, “Turn it up, I love this part,” and tap out the wrong time,
Then you’d look right through me, and forget you were ever mine.
[Chorus]
And I hit the high note for the empty passenger seat.
A victory lap on cracked asphalt, a quiet, furious heat.
[Bridge]
This whole damn car is a rib cage holding a collapsed lung.
My hands grip the wheel, ten calloused knuckles gone numb.
[Outro]
The song ends. The silence has a systolic beat.
About Juniper Rust
Juniper Rust dropped out of college at nineteen to become the primary caregiver for her mother, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. For two years, her world was the clinical, quiet landscape of a sickroom in her childhood home in Tacoma, Washington. After her mother passed, she inherited her father's 1978 Fender Jaguar and began writing songs again, not as an escape, but as a direct…
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