You steer through streets where sodium gleams
The dash light paints your knuckles white
A chipped mug rides the passenger seat
Its steam curls slow through caverned night
No fare can crack that ceramic skin
The night shift wears you thick and thin
In the arcade where synth waves crash
Your coffee mug survives the flash
Pixel ghosts don't scare the clay
It warms your hands through quarter play
Quarter coffee lights the way
The cabbie knows each shortcut's worth
A mug don't break from subway birth
You've hauled dreamers drunks and dying stars
This ceramic holds your battle scars
No pothole rattles what is true
The mug stays hot the whole night through
The joystick clicks the cathode hums
Your fingers numb from counting sums
But ceramic keeps the dark roast hot
A steady anchor like it or not
Eight bit bosses fall and fade
Your mug remains the hand you played
In the arcade where synth waves crash
Your coffee mug survives the flash
Pixel ghosts don't scare the clay
It warms your hands through quarter play
Quarter coffee lights the way
No meter running no fare to chase
Just synthesizer and steam's embrace
The high score blinks the coffee's gone
You face the dawn you face the dawn
Quarter coffee carries on
Next shift you'll park where pixels glow
The mug comes back for one more show
Chipped rim remembers every hand
The toughest clay in all the land
No GPS can map this route
Just ceramic heart and driver's doubt
In the arcade where synth waves crash
Your coffee mug survives the flash
Pixel ghosts don't scare the clay
It warms your hands through quarter play
Quarter coffee fuels the day
Quarter coffee come what may
Steam rises where the quarters lay
Quarter coffee quarter coffee
