Engine - Single Mothers

Paid with the union, drywall in your hair

Lights in the back rooms, the swelling of stairs

Smoke to the ceiling, bricks on the street

Glass on the side walk, a gross kind of need

Sweat in your palms, hair in your face

Feet that keep running, fists that stay made

Weeds in the garden, masks in the chains

You’re proud and stubborn, you’re dumb and enraged

I get choked up sometimes on the rides home

I get lonely sometimes on the rides home

I feel guilty sometimes on the rides home

I feel silly sometimes on the rides home

Where should i go?

Where should we go?

Where should we go?

Done with the office, done with the chair

Sick of time tables, perfume in the air

Caught in the leash, died for the dream

That constant ticking, ignore all feeling

Tight in the chest, just blending in

Die for the week, live for the weekend

Cooler of beer, traffic that sneers

What are we doing?

Tell me, my peers

I get choked up sometimes on the rides home

I get lonely sometimes on the rides home

I feel guilty sometimes on the rides home

I feel silly sometimes on the rides home

(I get choked up sometimes on the rides home)

(I get lonely sometimes on the rides home)

(I feel guilty sometimes on the rides home)

(I feel silly sometimes on the rides home)

Now that you’re a pile of dust in a wall

I visit on long weekends and when I can

I stare at the names and all the flowers around

And tell myself I’ve done what I planned

And I get choked up on the rides home

And I get lonely on the rides home

And I feel guilty on the rides home

Engine of destruction, rush hour glare

Tight and congested, dirt in the air

Contentious objector, stuck in a line

For peace of mind, with interest to pay

I ran away from all of my options

Left you alone to deal with my problems

Didn’t come back till it was too late

Now I’m still stuck here, finally changed

I get choked up sometimes on the rides home

I get lonely sometimes on the rides home

I feel guilty sometimes on the rides home

I feel silly sometimes on the rides home