In the Driveway Lyrics

I leave early just to see you in Tacoma

And to hear you say my name the way you say it

It takes less time to get there now that they're done with the construction

And I live further south

I see the mountain and the freeway and the big grocery store

I thought it closed a couple years ago

But there it is, glistening

A frosty lights-on five:30 in the evening

One day I will feel unfeeling in the frozen sound

Cannibalized and canonized by the blister, the whisper of glaciers

And opening my eyes like

Oh

There's nothing there

I tossed myself away there

A young but worn version of myself

Who I thought was unflinchingly and unbearably crumpled

But actually was waiting to burst out again

In a subtle but violent incandescence

I only needed to agree for it to be true and it was

Forever imprinted into cracked concrete at a four-bedroom house in North Seattle

I burned up there

I remember the flowers in the driveway

Existing anyway