Backseat Angels

He tore out our lives like pages

My love like bullets from a gun

And my only wish was that he’d warned me

That we weren’t having any fun

Now give me a car a pick a direction

I may have had too much to drink

A shot for every missed affection

Gimme gasoline

Said “if you’d rather come with

Well that’s fine with me,” and he smiles

“But keep in mind the music’s loud

And we might be lost for a while.”

He offers to drive

I say that I don’t know

But he takes away the keys

He gets up and we go

It’s three in the morning, the city is crying

The highway’s our soundtrack

It’s starting to look like a record

Injecting road signs into our lives

The scenery keeps changing

And he watches me smile

He drives like he’s flying

And we lose ourselves for a while

But the car keeps on stalling us

Until finally, we hit the coast

And the world keeps on falling

It’s sinking all around him

But the look in his eyes, I know it

And that smile, I haven’t seen in a while

We walk until it’s cold out

Then lie down in the backseat
Of our tired house

I fall asleep in his arms

And my memories fall backwards

Into the darkest parts of my mind

It feels like the summer

And he tastes like strawberry wine.