Frontage Road Off a Dark Freeway

[couchgrouch]

Frontage Road Off a Dark FreewayShe caught me at the office partydrinking Black Velvet aloneand her silky fish-net stockingsasked me to drive her homebut we pulled off a lonely exitand parked my old Chevrolether stiletto heels scratched steam from the windshieldon a frontage road off a dark freewaythen came phone calls in the eveningand questions from my wifeone night she tailed my Chevydown an alley of my lifetwo shadows in the windowwas all the night could sayit was a foolish detour takendown a frontage road off a dark freewaybridge now regret's the road I travel and it leads me day to day loneliness runs along side like a frontage road off a dark freewayI tried to talk my Babyinto trusting me againshe said love should last foreverand I was just some dead endshe got the house and the Chevyand my future has more to paycos I'm heading nowherewith my thumb in the airdown a frontage road off a dark freeway(c)2005 Robert George