White cup sits on frozen stone
Steam curls up where light has flown
Cobblestones wear winter's crown
Taxi wheels keep spinning round
Meter reads zero tonight
Headlights cut through blinding white
Driver knows what mugs don't say
Heat don't last but debts get paid
Ceramic winter holds the heat
Cobblestones bite at frozen feet
Steam rises up through midnight air
Taxi driver knows despair
Chipped rim tells a thousand rides
Morning rush and sunset tides
Ceramic skin takes all the cold
Stories that are never told
Meter reads zero tonight
Headlights cut through blinding white
Driver knows what mugs don't say
Heat don't last but debts get paid
Ceramic winter holds the heat
Cobblestones bite at frozen feet
Steam rises up through midnight air
Taxi driver knows despair
Passenger left coffee black
No tip left on vinyl sack
Mug waits out the longest night
Dawn breaks slow and pale as light
Wiper blades slap steady time
Radio plays static rhyme
Every fare a lesson learned
Every bridge eventually burned
Yeah! Come on!
Blow it out!
Ceramic winter holds the heat
Cobblestones bite at frozen feet
Steam rises up through midnight air
Taxi driver knows despair
Engine coughs the morning through
Mug still waits for someone new
Driver shifts to first and rolls
Winter takes its heavy tolls
Ceramic winter holds the heat
Cobblestones bite at frozen feet
Steam rises up through midnight air
Taxi driver knows despair
Meter stops. Engine dies.
Ceramic winter survives.