Song: Drive Time

sometimes when I get bored I write songs. Seems to happen a lot when the Internet goes down at work.
For all the drivers stuck in traffic, with an extra wave to the traffic reporter. This is in fast 4/4 and should be sung as if by Weird Al, though I wrote this one.

Drive Time
I woke up before the dawn and drank my coffee black
I showered shaved and brushed my teeth still halfway in the sack
All dressed up and ready, I hop into my car
But now three hours later it's like I'm stuck in tar

Chorus:
Won't you guide me in my car and tell me where to go?
Won't you tell me just in time just where the traffic's slow?
This freeway is the me way, but what I'd like to know
Is why that turtle's zooming past like in a cartoon show?

My Saturn's sleek and really new, puts lots of cars to shame
I'm stuck behind a Yugo and it's really kinda lame
We haven't moved for half an hour and I'm squirming in my seat
Maybe I'd feel better if I fainted in the heat

Chorus

Can't you help me make it? Make it into work on time?
Can't you help me make my way out of this fkin' line?

I left my home, my wife and child to make my way to work
But traffic has me late again, I'm over half-berserk
Five cars broke down and blocked four lanes, this highway just had two
My teleporter's on the fritz, I don't know what to do.

Chorus

Chevys Saabs and Beemers all dead on rutted roads
They're blocking every backroad route, I think I'll just explode
Those flashing blues behind me mean that things are getting worse
I wonder why I'm lying down in the back end of this hearse?

Chorus
Tell me why's that turtle's zooming past like in a cartoon show?

Spoken See ya round, Speedy!

by me, Sep 8 2005