King For A Day Lyrics - Stan Ridgway

Yeah, I'm drivin' down your freeway 

In a brand new car that I just found 

Oh, it was parked there in your driveway 

Didn't want to wake you with a sound 

So I pushed it down the street 

Hopped in runnin', I rolled the window down 

Yeah, I'm doin' 95 now 

I'm smokin' crack, it can't be beat 

And thanks for all the money 

You left in your wallet on the seat 

Oh, it's generosity like yours 

That keeps us poor folk off the street 

Hey, I'm doin' 110 now 

Can you still hear me on your phone? 

I got a hundred cops behind me 

And overhead I hear the choppers groan 

Oh, I'm headed for the wall, now 

Gotta hang up now, thanks for the loan 

Chorus: 

So is this how we'll end 

My face here on TV 

Here's a message for your mother 

Out the windowcan she see? 

So I'm cuttin' to the exit 

I can see people on the shoulder wave at me 

They're wavin' at me 

Don't know how things will end, now 

But I never wanted this to be so hard 

That's how love will go, it's either there 

Or it's not there in the cards 

So I'll leave you now, but you'd better check 

The fire I set in our backyard 

Now I wonder if they'll shoot me 

Or just fire that taser gun 

And to tell you all the truth, 

It don't matter a difference either one 

I know it's just a job they're doin' 

A man's gotta take it as it comes 

Oh, I think my bumper fell off 

Somewhere ten miles back 

The transmission is history 

The engine block is cracked 

I'm pickin' through these bottles 

Left here behind the seat 

The radiator's boilin' and 

The needle's in the heat 

So this is how it ends, now 

You get the kids and kick me out 

So I guess I had to show you 

That this man is not a mouse 

Hey, I hope you're happy now 

I gotta hang up now and crash into this house 

Daddy's home!