simply beautiful

Nightswimming
The old song brings its memories
Old cars and scents of incense
Laying on the roof
Staring the stars late night
Dreams I had……
Dreams I had……

First job
Car almost as old as me
With a twitchy improvised CD player
And a disc I burned from my sister
Driving out at closing time
The world being mine for seven miles every afternoon
Little finger-puppet on the shift knob
And those halls cough drops
That no one was really sure where came from
Or when

Semi-sonic came out with closing time
She said “that’s deep”
I just thought it was a good song
“every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end”
“take me home”

Windows rolled down in the rain
Laughing with the stereo cranked
And the girl at the sandwich shop was cute
But I never got her name
Just the subs for lunch

The car never had AC
Just 4 windows and 6 cylinders
That summer I learned 3 things
Don’t ever touch the metal seat-belt buckle
After your car sits in the Carolina sun all day
Laughter outlasts damn near everything
And life doesn’t have to make sense
To be simply beautiful