Meter drops at midnight hour
Fare jumps out from coffee tower
White ceramic hunts for heat
Through cobblestone and frozen sleet
Steam on cobblestones at night
Mug searches for a morning light
Handle cold but spirit strong
Waiting for the dawn too long
Wipers swipe the windshield clean
Strangest sight this driver's seen
No hands to hold no lips to sip
Just clay that refuses to quit
Steam on cobblestones at night
Mug searches for a morning light
Handle cold but spirit strong
Waiting for the dawn too long
Alley cats watch from brick wall perch
Mug moves on its lone research
Steam trails like a ghostly tail
Winter wind begins to wail
Steam on cobblestones at night
Mug searches for a morning light
Handle cold but spirit strong
Waiting for the dawn too long
Streetlamp flickers yellow gold
Story that is rarely told
Fare was paid in coins and steam
Driver lives a dream supreme
Thirty years behind this wheel
Seen the fake and seen the real
But a mug that walks alone
Makes this old heart turn to stone
Dawn breaks pale on avenue
Mug finds café door broken through
Steam rises from fresh coffee poured
Taxi rolls on never bored
Steam on cobblestones at night
Mug searches for a morning light
Handle cold but spirit strong
Waiting for the dawn too long
Steam on cobblestones at night
Mug found its morning light
Meter runs the city wakes
Ceramic heart the cold forsakes