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The Long Drive
I’m a private detective, I left at midnight, I got a 5
Hour drive,
A place I don’t want to go. A lawyer woke me this morning, looking
For a girl, I didn’t like his attitude, I can’t pass up the dough. I
Knew her from a photo, a fiance of a dead friend, I didn’t let on,
Sometimes it’s best to pretend. Her name was Cynthia, her
Boyfriend Glover, she was brilliantly doomed, I got a kick how he
Loved her.
Got to the hotel, set the alarm. I would check the old hangouts,
So I got up at 10. No luck by afternoon, I stopped at Brunels, the
Bartender said he’d seen her, but couldn’t remember when. A ten
Refreshed his memory, Friday she was round, the night that Joe
The Box got poisoned, and ended up face down. His funeral was
This evening, though I doubt she’d be there, they were drug deal-
Ing acquaintances, and she could hardly care. The long drive.
The funeral was quiet, Box wasn’t that popular, Cynthia was a
No show, I headed to the car. I saw Yugoslavian Mike, runs an all
Night card game, for years I saw him nightly, I was there tending
Bar. How’s the game, I asked, It’s a living, Mike said, and I’m
Glad to say it, now there’s 4 drug dealers dead, every one of
Them poisoned, like Box the same, later, I gotta run, you drop by
The game.
I went and caught a movie, would have gone to Glover’s grave,
But he’d been cremated, and I wondered about the ashes.
Turned up empty on Cyn, some said she’d moved, I had a hunch,
Sometimes I get these flashes. 3 a.m. outside of Mike’s, she was
Leaving with a box. I made a U, it was raining, I tailed her 15
Blocks. She parked outside of Glover’s, they’d kept a two room
Flat, I waited half and tapped light, ‘Mind, Cyn, if we chat? The
Long drive.
Smoked cigarettes in the dark, both of us quiet, I remembered
When I met her, these last years a waste. All of Glover’s drugs,
All of her prayers, I eased the box from her, I took a little taste.
His ashes, Cyn? Did you cut ‘em with strychnine? She wasn’t
Hidin nothing when her eyes met mine. Not a dealer at his funeral,
These so called friends deserved to die, I slip him in their drinks,
She said, and then it’s pfft goodbye.
They’re on to you, Cyn, they sent me to find you, they’re small
Time dealers, but they got bosses. They probably won’t search, it
Ain’t that big a deal, but you gotta leave now, you’re causing
Them losses. I could set you up, come with me to the city. She
Said “I guess I should go, do you think I’m still pretty?” We
Left her car there, she got into my ride, we hit the bridge after
Sunrise, she threw the ashes over the side. The long drive.

credits

from Choochtown (20th Anniversary Edition), released July 19, 2019
The Long Drive
Hamell, guitar, & vox. Brian Wolff, trumpet. Recorded live into a
Panasonic Boom Box in Brian Wolff’s apartment on
St Marks Place, E Village, NY

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