Intro
Mist on the windshield, engine humming low
Sulfur in the throat
(slow)
Yeah, let it run
Verse
Tailpipes whistling a low frequency (low)
Copper pennies on the console rattling next to me
Sixty down the avenue, the green lights blur
Ice inside my ribs, couldn't tell you what occurred
Months spent running on an empty battery
Counting every shadow like an ambush or a cavity
Rubber meets the drizzle on the corner of Fourth
Bottle rocket screaming from the south to the north (north)
Red phosphor skimming off the curb in a streak
Wakes up the nerve endings frozen for a week
Radiator hissing through a hairline crack
Adrenaline snapping on the small of my back
I was locked behind glass, staring through the pane
Just calculating shelter from the cold and the rain
Now friction makes fire when the fuse hits the tar
Suddenly I'm present right inside of this car (car)
Chorus
Foguetes no asfalto, skimming through the night (night)
Sparks along the gutter, amber turning bright
Chest against the steering wheel, waiting for the spark
Foguetes no asfalto cutting through the dark (dark)
Verse
Neon from the twenty-four-hour laundromat
Spilling on the puddle where the stray water sat (sat)
Shift to second gear, hear the iron clutch bite
Ozone in the wind, pulling color into sight
I used to think safety was the absence of sound
Numb inside a bunker where nobody could be found
Just a pulse on a monitor, keeping simple pace
Trading all the fever for an empty little space (space)
Now sulfur from the firework is drifting through the vent
Sharp against the jawline, every penny spent
Got thirty-two dollars and a half-tank left
Breathing in the midnight, heavy in the chest (chest)
Suspension takes a pothole, jarring every bone
Rattles through the marrow just to prove I'm not a stone
Tires gripping gravel where the off-ramp splits
Life isn't waiting on the corner where you quit (quit)
Bridge
Foot off the pedal as the overpass clears
Ten city blocks washing out two whole years
You can build a shelter out of silence and steel
Or scrape against the concrete just to remember how to feel (feel)
Just to remember how to feel
Chorus
Foguetes no asfalto, skimming through the night (night)
Sparks along the gutter, amber turning bright
Chest against the steering wheel, waiting for the spark
Foguetes no asfalto cutting through the dark (dark)
Outro
Tires cooling down on the shoulder
Steam rising off the manifold
Pale amber breaking through the glass
Engine off
(off)
