Bus Ride Lyrics

Just a random memory

I'm twenty

On the overnight bus

Indy to New York

Back to college

After Christmas

Window seat alone

Staring at silo silhouettes

First Christmas

After dad died

Dozing on and off

I awake to find

I am not alone

Someone must have boarded

At Zanesville

Maybe Pittsburgh

Sitting next to me

Slumping next to me

Head on my shoulder

He smells of sweat

Cologne

Cigarettes

Exhaustion

And something else

And something else

Fear

Fear

Fear

He's sleeping on my shoulder

Snoring

I'd never smelled fear before

I'd never smelled fear before

Five endless hours

Five

Endless

Endless

Hours

I am a cushion

I breathe quietly

Until dawn

Squealing brakes

He jerks awake

In Philadelphia

He nods

He smiles

He exits

Like nothing happened

But something did happen

But something did happen

I'd never

I'd never

I'd never smelled fear before

I'd never smelled fear before