Cosmic Dirt Road Drifter Verse 1 Engine hummin’ tangerine thunder Dust cloud bloom like a midnight flower Rearview mirror full of yesterday’s sun Radio speakin’ in cinnamon tongues Windshield meltin’ into blue Sky tastes like electric dew Gravel singin’ under my wheels Boot heels tap to howlin’ steel Pre-Chorus Chrome horizon bendin’ slow Purple tumbleweeds aglow Pocket full of stardust sand Map dissolvin’ in my hand Chorus I’m a cosmic dirt road drifter Ridin’ through a honeyed haze Silver cactus space-shape shifter Countin’ neon yesterdays Moonlight spillin’ on my collar Saturn swingin’ from my chain If the night don’t wanna holler I’ll just hum it into flame ⸻ Verse 2 Gasoline rainbows in my cup Milky Way in a pickup truck Headlights bloom like desert wine Constellations cross the county line My shadow’s wearin’ buffalo wings Whisperin’ backward wedding rings Fiddle cryin’ sideways rain Spiral stair inside my brain Pre-Chorus Velvet thunder tumble low Halo hangin’ on a crow Every mile a molten tune Sleepwalk past the paper moon Chorus I’m a cosmic dirt road drifter Drivin’ past the edge of sound Solar flare gift-wrapper Heartbeat buried underground Rhinestone comets kiss my boots Steel guitar in orbit spins If forever’s got deep roots Plant ’em where the sky begins ⸻ Bridge (Slow. Phased. Possibly backwards.) Who put starlight in my diesel? Why’s the moon hummin’ E minor? There’s a jukebox in the mesquite Playin’ smoke through a magnifier I ain’t lost — I’m overflow Like a galaxy in a rodeo If love’s a rope of liquid chrome Lasso me and call it home ⸻ Breakdown Section (Word salad full send.) Sugar gravel Silver saddle Whiskey halo Cactus rattle Neon marrow Desert sparrow Velvet arrow Nowhere narrow Spin the axle Paint the vacuum Kiss the static Ride the phantom ⸻ Final Chorus (Big harmonies, almost gospel but from Mars) I’m a cosmic dirt road drifter Dust and diamond in my veins Stoned on sunset scripture Baptized in the rain If you see my taillights shimmer Through a violet prairie sky Don’t you try to hold me, darlin’ I was born to liquefy
