Bungling Down The Road

Verse 1

Cracked glass cascades across my shoes

Twirling headlights, honking horns all fuse

One hand steering, the other flicks the moon

Carnival carousel—spins a little too soon

Woke up

Windshield spiderwebbed, weaving tales

Sip the bottle, swallow laughter, swallow lies

Maybe I’m not moving, but traffic trails

Looming

Chorus

Dizzy lines, all twisting, spinning

Dizzy signs, all morphing, grinning

I drive, I dive, I try to rise

But my hands, my wheels, my mind betray me

Always betray me

Post-Chorus

Round and round, teeth gnash and sound

Round and round, going down

Verse 2

Polka-dotted officers juggle the night

Candy-colored curbs inhale flashing blue

My vision bleeds, pavement laughs, then bites

Lost my grip again—hide, ignore the hue

Sideshow mirrors multiplying mistakes

Anaphora: Never stopped, never thought, never brake

Whispered wishes—wipe away the ache

Screech of brakes, no retakes, make no mistake

Chorus

Dizzy lines, all twisting, spinning

Dizzy signs, all morphing, grinning

I drive, I dive, I try to rise

But my hands, my wheels, my mind betray me

Always betray me

Post-Chorus

Round and round, teeth gnash and sound

Round and round, going down

Bridge

Three shots

Two laughs

One last spin

Carnival crashes, bright balloons burst within

Steam escapes—a serpent’s hiss

Siren song of metal met with abyss

Verse 3

Maybe this time

Maybe this time

Wind-down clown in a paper hat

Broken big top, spinning like a baseball bat

Red and blue

Blue and red

Crawling from the chaos clumsily

Hands on my head, hands on the curb

Hear the crowd?

No applause now

Chorus

Dizzy lines, all twisting, spinning

Dizzy signs, all morphing, grinning

I drive, I dive, I try to rise

But my hands, my wheels, my mind betray me

Always betray me

Post-Chorus

Round and round, teeth gnash and sound

Round and round, going down

Outro

Hands up, held down, heavy clown

Hands up, held down, all around