Great Highway to Nowhere (Long Version)

Start

Verse 1

Remember Sunday morning, quiet, coffee steam outside my door

Now it’s sirens every hour, engines roaring, endless more

Traded blacktop for a promise, but the deal was one-way signed

Public vote without our warning, left our lives stuck in a line

Pre-Chorus

Did you count the crashes climbing, families stranded on the curb

Shuffled papers, skipped the study, just pretend it’s not absurd

Chorus

All the cars losing patience, jammed in front of my home

Prop K parks it for tourists, while we’re stuck in the zone

Sunset, Richmond left behind in endless horns and fumes

No one asked what happens here, democracy left the room

Post-Chorus

No way out now no way through

Overflow on avenues

Verse 2

Lines of metal never ending kids dodging double-yellow speed

Nights haunted by engines blending with ballots no one ever read or heeds

Where’s our air that’s not from tailpipes stacking up for blocks?

Shoved it through without a study, while they’re patting backs in talks

Pre-Chorus

Said it’s green but crushed the green, the law was just a word

Ignored the folks who live here most, our voices never heard

Chorus

All the cars losing patience, jammed in front of my home

Prop K parks it for tourists, while we’re stuck in the zone

Sunset, Richmond left behind in endless horns and fumes

No one asked what happens here, democracy left the room

Post-Chorus

No way out now no way through

Overflow on avenues[Bridge]

Recall posters on the poles now, neighbors rally side by side

Trading stories of frustration, sacrificed for someone’s pride

We asked for studies, not silence, but the process rolled right past

How many votes before you notice when the backlash hits at last

Chorus

All the cars losing patience, jammed in front of my home

Prop K parks it for tourists, while we’re stuck in the zone

Sunset, Richmond left behind in endless horns and fumes

No one asked what happens here, democracy left the room

Post-Chorus

No way out now no way through

Overflow on avenues

Outro

If you listen to the engines, they’re telling you the score

Westside traded peace and safety just to even out the shore

Remember driveways full of silence, before these broken rules

When the promise was a garden, not a bypass for a few

End