Do Cars Cough At Midnight

(heart-beat tape) (percussion)

Furred with fire the fingers flicker guilt,
With golden glows in the wasting woods.
We went west, wondering with our open eyes
Where wild weaving water bloomed blue above winter.

Leaves left loafs of leaven looping our hands. (add bass)
Do cars cough at midnight?
Do cars cough at midnight?

On the plains eagles danced with their wooden wings,
waxed to the clouds.
The sun wrinkled in the west,
And left stars screaming in the purple mouth of morning.

And the leaves left loafs of leaven looping our hands.
Do cars cough at midnight? (build)
Do cars cough at midnight?

Our tears turned to wrinkled rocks in the ice fields,
And we drown in the dry grass dappled with dew.
As a warning could be heard: (voice only)
"Don't float in the fires of fantasy without wearing a wristwatch."

As a car coughs at midnight. (percussion & voice only)
As a car coughs at midnight.
As a car coughs at midnight.

words by David Graver

Listen to "Do Cars Cough At Midnight" from the Mall Show.