Chelsea - AM Taxi

Chelsea pours the contents from the suitcase to the bed

Shakes her head and packs it up again

After renovated teeth, she swears anyone can leave here

The hard part is knowing when

Yeah, we dance to the traffic where the DuPage River passes

All the bars she can’t go into anymore

I guess when every pissed off bouncer in every pissed on club

Knows your name

It hardly ever gets you far

She said, «I've been in this place now for weeks

Out where the trains never shake me to sleep»

We could build a great lake and cool off this town

If you fall, then I’ll follow you down

Chelsea combs the mattress for something else that matches

Her boss wants her to stay in style

He bought her a brand new Cadillac

She said, «I won’t take a bribe, but I’ll drive one around for a while»

And on the coldest of evenings

She flew out like a hummingbird

It got down to the negative teens that night

But by then she climbing her upper twenties

With double on the rocks

Out of Midway on a one-way flight

She said, «I've been on this island for weeks

Out where the waves never wash me to sleep»

I’ll fall in love if it kills me or leaves me to drown

If you die, then I’ll follow you down

Chelsea, I heard things about you I don’t want to believe

But maybe I could look out for you if you look out for me

You could start over somewhere if it helps

And I could try with someone else

Chelsea, I can look out for you if you look out for me

Look out

Chelsea drags her suitcase into cool, harsh light

She came back home on a red eye flight

And she found me where she left me

About halfway down a bottle

Writing songs for negative teens tonight

When I get done with work, she’ll be working up to gin

She says, «I don’t know how you can live in the dark»

But somewhere underneath that leather jacket beats a leather heart

And it beats and it beats and it pulls me apart

She said, «I've been in this town now for years

And all these stories could bring you to tears»

We could cut all these waves down to size

We could hold onto time when it flies

Chelsea, I heard things about you I don’t want to believe

But maybe I could look out for you if you could look out for me

You could start over somewhere if it helps

And I could try with someone else

Chelsea, I can look out for you if you look out for me

Chelsea, I can look out for you if you look out for me