Track Insight / Lyrics
Meter reads zero on All Hallows Eve
Fog eats the headlights, thick as wolf fur
Passenger wears a mask of dried leaves
Pays in acorns and a vulture feather
Samhain smoke curls round the steering wheel
Embers drink the midnight gasoline
Ancestors ride shotgun, made of steel
Driver knows what the dead have seen
Cabbage stalks rot on the curb stone grey
Kids traded sweets for cider and rye
Crone in the backseat reads palms for pay
Her breath writes runes on frosted glass sky
Samhain smoke curls round the steering wheel
Embers drink the midnight gasoline
Ancestors ride shotgun, made of steel
Driver knows what the dead have seen
Radio plays a reel from nineteen three
Fiddle screams like a banshee in rain
Wheels kiss the rails where the banshee flee
Turn left at the oak where the hanged remain
Clock strikes thirteen, the meter goes blank
Time folds over like a worn leather seat
Living and gone share the same fuel tank
Bound by the cold and the haunted street
Samhain smoke curls round the steering wheel
Embers drink the midnight gasoline
Ancestors ride shotgun, made of steel
Driver knows what the dead have seen
Dawn peels the dark from the cemetery gates
Fare drops a coin stamped with a skull
Engine coughs clean, the heavy air abates
Another year older, the cab pulls full
Samhain smoke curls round the steering wheel
Embers drink the midnight gasoline
Ancestors ride shotgun, made of steel
Driver knows what the dead have seen
Samhain smoke curls round the steering wheel
Embers drink the midnight gasoline
Ash on the dash till next October
Wheels turn home through the thinning veil