Palpitations

Signs for towns that didn't own us Trees carved for someone else Rest stops we'd never grace to stretch Long stretches of terrain we missed every time we blinked No records broken for state license plates passed Flooring it, I wanted to break the sound barrier The roadside coffee was only passable But it made my heart rattle as we drove, the sun rising on our right The tin can tied by a string to the back of the Chevy It never loosed, never caught itself on a stray post Longing, it tuk-tuk-tuked along with us, the two of us And the motor and the radio that melted into fuzz As we drove North, out of range of the station These palpitations, inspired by you or invented by me Palpitations are my body's way of telling me I'm finally free Sun overhead, the shadow's gone now My left arm raw from the wind Who knows where we'll be when the sun goes down But does it really matter when there's nowhere that we have to be The page missing in the atlas is where we'll go next State lines snapping like twigs beneath our tires The roadside coffee is still just passable But's it's kept my heart racing all day, the sun settling on our left The tin can tied by a string to the back of the Chevy Still hasn't loosed, hasn't worn itself out at all Longing, it tuk-tuk-tuks along with us, the two of us And the motor and the radio that's melting into fuzz As we drive north out of range of the station These palpitations, inspired by you or invented by me Palpitations are my body's way of telling me I'm finally free