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Burn & Ride

by AKODA

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White knuckling along county lines
We’ve reached the city limits
Knocking the sign off its bolts with our tailwind
Churning up macadam like asphalt demons
We’ve torn up this place before
And Sally’s gunning it all to hell
But I’m not afraid

Blood on the stickshift and ash on the windshield
The dented steel rattles and howls against the sheer velocity of the desert
Desolate gas stations fly past us like bullets chasing those unlucky enough to cross us

I’ve got 5 dollars in my wallet
And a dead man's revolver
I’ve got car sickness and half a belly of beer and bottled panic
I’ve got short memory but a bad sense of deja vu
But I’m not afraid
I just have to

HOLD ON

Pulling through the parking lot like a Cadillac knife
Lester pushes back the bandana
Hair whipping us in the back like tentacles
We clear two parking curbs with a thud
And slide to an ugly death-rattle stop

HOLD ON

Pulling up next to Carl
His bright orange shirt hangs open

HOLD ON

And we can see the inside turning red
His face beaded with sweat and panic

BURN AND RIDE
BURN AND RIDE
BURN AND RIDE

Back inside
Carl sits up but then passes back out
I’m faint but my nausea chokes me awake
Rubber lullabies playing polka on my insides
We’ve got 60 miles to ride
And I can ride, but I just gotta

HOLD ON

Ballast and bullshit and buttered bread and soda bottles
Bobbing lamplights in the night, phantom banter
Lester spits parables and squabbles
Carl slumps silent against the dashboard

HOLD ON

A foot pressed against the floorboards of disaster
Sally’s bantam laughter calling “Faster! Faster! Faster!”

HOLD ON

Siren calls pulsing through the leather
My bare skin under moonlight slivers

HOLD ON

As we pour like molten fire
Onto the pavement
Over the causeway
Across the transom
Under the traffic lights
Through the tollway
Past the smokestacks
Beyond the farmhouse
To the bottom of the gully
And no turning back

BURN AND RIDE
BURN AND RIDE
BURN AND RIDE
BURN AND RIDE

And now we stop—

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released April 9, 2020
Alan Koda—guitars, bass, drums, synths, vocals

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