Lyrics

About The Driver's Ed Story. if you don't remember it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ih_sLvyLpw

Darryl Hall is just outside my range, but I did my best here. Going lower just didn't work.



Afternoon in East Rockaway Park
we’re about to hit the road
Susan Pfeffer’s finished
bowling over garbage cans
Cmyalo’s pretending to read
about the Knickerbockers
In a few years time
he’ll be pretending to read me too
Tina Wade’s got a Marlboro Green
hanging from her bottom lip
as she paints her fingernails
Castilian Blue
And I’m staring at Tina
in the rearview mirror
when my gaze is pierced
by the 3-inch coke-bottle glasses
on Susan’s snoot

And that’s cause Susan Pfeffer’s got
bad oculation
What’s she doing in Driver’s Education?
her field of vision’s filled
with gauzy figurations
Cmyalo dabs at several beads
of perspiration

“Kornheiser, take us up the road
and park next to the curb…”
Cmyalo says to me
“…cause I need to get some food.”
So I parallel park
open up the door, it explodes
off of its joints
hammered by the truck I didn’t see
cruising through

But it’s true
that Susan Pfeffer didn’t see
the migration
all she felt was the
nascent ventilation
Cmyalo’s mouth agape, he contemplates
reparations
says to Tina
“I need a
nicotine inhalation.”