The Open Road

On an open road through the driving rain She drove fast and deadly like a hurricane Sad yellow stripes in between white lines Covered cold dead flowers and some valentines Her baby grows and her mother cries A painful evelution right before their eyes She left him bleeding as the future glowed From a dying past down the open road She fights the lions as she curse it all The men the drugs and the alcohol The radio dj makes it all look good With songs about love and of motherhood She saw her future going down the drain Her baby's tears feeds her growing pain A blade in the night and the bad blood flowed Down in the gutter on the open road A big black bird at the top of the shelves Judging what they all did to themselves With fingernails growing like a raven's claw She will never see what the big bird saw Like the drugs of the dying like a martyr's faith There was light in the dark but no open gate She hunted the keys to the secret code As she watched him fade on the open road