AJAYE

Lyrics

She takes a drag on a Marlboro light underneath that old no smoking sign
She says rules were made for breaking
Two-tone hair and a painted smile and those Dr. Scholl’s have seen a hundred miles
And a grease stain on her apron

Between the shifts of the breakfast crowd and the dinner rush
She makes a list of everything she’s never done
And all the things she knows she never will
On the back of a phone bill

Followed her heart right out of town traded her Miss Teen Freedom crown
For all the lies he told her
She cashed out in Eleventh grade and you can’t buy much with minimum wage
Ain’t no use looking over your shoulder

She takes a seat pretends to fill the shakers up
Writes down her dreams behind a stack of coffee cups
A couple minutes left of time to kill
On the back of a phone bill

It just goes in the blink of an eye, life is short and the days go by
Faster than the coffee that she’s pouring
She starts at Five but she don’t care, and that old Buick won’t be there
When that diner opens in the morning

She knows they’ll survive, sometimes life’s got other plans
She’ll leave tonight on a tank of tips from a coffee can
Cause if she don’t go now she never will
So she left a note goodbye taped to the till
On the back of a phone bill

And she drives, and she drives, and she drives, and she drives…oh she drives