Because I could not stop for Death he kindly stopped for me
as I whistled, hands in pockets, feeling the pavement beneath my feet
the door creaked open I got in and I slid into the seat.
He turned a knob, the music went up, his engine roared all the way down the street.
I tried to tell him where I wanted to be, since he'd never bothered to ask
he couldn't hear me the sounds were too loud, but eventually we stopped for gas
he asked me for some money and he brought me back a couple of bottles of beer
I took a sip and I looked around and I said to him:
I could just walk from here.
He insisted I finish the drive and besides by now we were back on track
I took one last drink and I threw it with the other beer bottles in the floorboard in the back
he pushed a button on the dash and the song started to change
he reclined his seat put his hands behind his head and he smirked as he said that I should take the reigns
I wish now that I would have tried the tuck-and-roll, instead I grabbed the wheel with my head full of beer I wanted to steer, I wanted to take control
like a kid in a car I just couldn't get settled and he smiled all the while as he put the peddle to the metal
as smoke came out from under the hood this is when I think that I finally understood
that because I would not stop for death he had to stop for me.
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