You park where the yellow lines end
Watch water that won't ever bend
No ripple breaks the oil sheen
Cleanest dirty you've ever seen
Alley pool holds Tokyo light
Swallows towers drinks the night
You don't blink you don't breathe
Something waits underneath
Meter clicks but fare walked off
Clock ticks soft as a cough
Steam rises from the engine block
Time stops at eleven o'clock
Alley pool holds Tokyo light
Swallows towers drinks the night
You don't blink you don't breathe
Something waits underneath
Pedal steel cries through the dash
Harmonica answers with a crash
Bass line walks the wet cement
Every fare knows where you went
Alley pool holds Tokyo light
Swallows towers drinks the night
You don't blink you don't breathe
Something waits underneath
Old drivers say water remembers
Holds the heat of late Decembers
But this one holds something else
Keeps its secrets to itself
Dawn cracks slow on Shibuya cross
Pool still smooth as polished gloss
You climb in turn the key
Leave the watching to the free
Alley pool holds Tokyo light
Swallows towers drinks the night
You don't blink you don't breathe Something waits underneath
Something waits underneath
Meter drops to zero fare
Rain keeps falling everywhere