Zevon Warren Gridlock Lyrics

Gridlock Lyrics

written by Warren Zevon 1989 Zevon Music Inc./BMI
It's 5:00 P.M. on a
weekday, friend
There's one of me and two million of them
The whistle
blows and the factories close
There's a million more commuters on the access
roads
The brake lights flash--there's an RV crashed
I'm in the passing
lane going nowhere fast
The traffic crawls and the engine stalls
I'm
stuck on the edge of the urban sprawl
Gridlock
Up ahead
There's a line
of cars as far as I can see
Gridlock
Goin' nowhere
Roll down the
window, let me scream
Oh yeah, ain't it a shame
We're all jammed up at
the interchange
The paramedics and the CHP
Wait impatiently for
catastrophes
I'm spending half my days like this
I might as well be
working on the midnight shift
The radio's tuned to the traffic news
And
everybody's choking on monoxide fumes
Gridlock
Up ahead
There's a line
of cars as far as I can see
Gridlock
Goin' nowhere
Roll down the
window, let me scream
I can close my eyes and dream
I can close my eyes
and dream
I can close my eyes and dream
It's 5:00PM on a weekday,
friend
I'm going home but I don't know when
I hate this traffic and I
hate this town
Gotta honk my horn, try to get around
I feel like going on
a killing spree
Tomorrow I'm going on the RTD
The traffic crawls and the
engine stalls
I'm stuck on the edge of the urban sprawl
Gridlock
Up
ahead
There's a line of cars as far as I can see
Gridlock
Goin'
nowhere
Roll down the window, let me scream
I can close my eyes and
dream