State Trooper

If I drive slower

Will that make you

Pull me over?

What’s the speed

What’s the speed

I need

To be at

To not arouse

Suspicion?

Am I gripping

The wheel

Too tight?

Is my lip shaking?
Can you see my lip shaking?

I want to see

New York City

I want to see

A skyline

Then I’ll know

That I’m all right

But until then

If I see you, state trooper

I’m not sure

Whether

I should slow down

Or speed up

Or pull over

And let you

Have at it

Like a dead deer

With the vultures on it

Have at it, have at it

I left the windows up

But it’s hot as fuck

And the radio don’t work

And neither does the A/C

It’s too warm

For this time of year

And the backseat

Smells like dried up blood

I swallow hard

And almost sputter

On my own spit

Every time a car

Comes up behind me

I let ‘em pass

And if they don’t

I honk my horn

Like a maniac

And wave them forward

Like I got a pregnant lady

In the passenger seat

Ready to bust

Go easy on me, okay?

I don’t do this

All the time

I swear I’m not the bad type

I’m a good guy

I’m an upstanding guy

And every time I try

To take a break

At the roadside reststop

My nerves kick up

And I end up just pissing

In a jar in the car instead

All I want to see is New York

With the busy streets

And the bad news

Where a man can go by

Five different officers

With nobody batting an eye

Because he’s just one more madman

In a city full of ‘em

I can’t get lost in Jersey

The way I want to

But I feel like I got a pass

Provided I use it

In the next two hours

And that means

My ass

Needs to fly

Do we have an agreement, state trooper?

If I promise to get out

And stay out

Do you promise

To let me?

I don’t want to kill

Another man tonight

Especially not a man

Of the law

My father was a man

Of the law

And a man of god

And he used to beat me so bad

My eyes wouldn’t open

And my lip started quivering

And never stopped

But that didn’t make me

Hate men like you

I just want to do

The right thing

But first

I gotta run

If you see me going by

Just let me go

I’ll keep the windows

Rolled up

I’ll keep my eyes

On the road

Just let me go, please

I’ll take it slow

I’ll take it so slow

I’ll never get

Where I’m going

But as long as you let me

Stay driving

That’s okay

By me

I just don’t want

To go back

I’ll go anywhere

But back