Driving Down Alvarado

It's a different city when it rains It trickles down from the filthy sky She can see the panic in the drivers' eyes 'Let me out of here' The elevator feels like a secret room That everybody knows She turns the key and waits and thinks 'Get me out of here' Take me down Down to the place where the monster's play I give in Everything, everything All the way She says 'Sometimes tequila tastes like gasoline' And the words catch in her mouth Then he takes a cube of ice And begins to slide Her spine feels like a snake that's been pacified She's melting in his hands as he starts to breathe And it fills her up like a memory Take me down He says 'Women always talk about love too soon' Lights up a smoke and he leaves the room She's feeling for her lipstick in her make-up case And she's walking down the stairs trying to remember his face Take me down She's driving down Alvarado again Going down, down, down, down, down, down, down