Flour dust on stainless counter tops
Grease rag hangs where the line cook stops
She traces vinyl with flour fingertips
Three AM brings the sugar drips
Booth edges traced at three AM
Vinyl seams hold the night shift in
Sugar on her calloused thumb
Mapping where the weary come
Pie crust crimped with a line cook's grace
Cherry filling finds its place
She wipes her hands on a flour sack shirt
Booth vinyl wears the night's dessert
Booth edges traced at three AM
Vinyl seams hold the night shift in
Sugar on her calloused thumb
Mapping where the weary come
Regular in booth three knows her name
Trucker hat tipped back just the same
He orders coffee black as tar
Watches her trace where the booth edges are
Booth edges traced at three AM
Vinyl seams hold the night shift in
Sugar on her calloused thumb
Mapping where the weary come
Morning rush will break the spell
Flour footprints on the floor as well
But three AM holds its quiet truth
Booth edges mapped in sugar and youth
Booth edges traced at three AM
Vinyl seams hold the night shift in
Sugar on her calloused thumb
Mapping where the weary come
Three AM booth trace never done
Sugar crystals kiss the rising sun
