The Other

Stuck in traffic on my way To no particular place No agenda, no master plan No important dates No reason to be alive at all As far as I can tell Except for one small detail Like a distant ringing bell And it keeps on calling out to me Like a lost forgotten lover So I blast off down the shoulder To go looking for the other Driving up the coast Past the surfers and the seals All them lonely rich folks Who only know how to steal Science can cure sickness But what can cure my soul It won't be long before I'm gone Laying in some hole So I find an ancient payphone To tell my mother I love her But she ain't home She must have gone out looking for the other Pull up off the highway The moon is looking wicked good I throw my keys into the breeze And get lost in the woods I think about my old man And the mystery of time When suddenly between the trees I see the lake of fire So I jump right in And take a swim In this pool of unknown colours And as I swim I begin to brim with visions of the other Found my car a few days later After I came to Her name was Blue Subaru 1982 I punched the clutch And kick the gas And take off in a burst Well it wasn't long before the gas was gone And we were overcome from thirst So we found a dusty truckstop Above the vultures hovered And I thought it was the end But then I thought again And that was when I took the hand of the other --- The Other - King Tuff