Desperation AM

Sitting at the four way stoplight

At the corporation line

Desperation AM playing

No one leaves this town alive

I was born to be Houdini

On the day of Steve McQueen

I was born to leave this city

On a seat of velveteen

It’s a feat of engineering

Hello from a deep blue day

I stand up for the proclamation

But the words, they fall away

I was born to be Houdini

On the day of Steve McQueen

I was born to leave this city

On a seat of velveteen

Under canopy of giants

On the streets still wet with rain

Will we finally be delivered

And begin to see the light again

Now the song it never varies

And the note it always bends

I reach down to change the station

I’m sorry for the way it ends