Checker Drive Revisited

Outside a home that we didn't even own

There's the lawn we tried to mow

Rock still propping up the mailbox

Missed a lot so I circle 'round the block

The street was free to take a shot

I was thankful to be spared

There's stripe cat asleep in the driveway

Sensing it's probably the same cat I knew then

Hoping somehow it saw me

Stripe cat is well—the eternal being

I might be prone to wishful thinking

The setting keeps me logical

A couple names, a couple signs gonna change

Most everything around here, everything around here stays the same

Back on the road to the state where I was grown

Forty minutes since the news chopper circled my location

Light, but there's stars

Bolliger & Mabillard cars carve into a heaven to be sent into the backfill yard

Spruce the dinge on the buildings

And the Bull may quit Raging with peak efficiency

Spray some WD-40

You know, paint can turn plywood to Gotham City

It's on my list of stuff to look at

Always drive past but rarely go

Just another something took for granted

Like everything around here, everything around here

You may find me disappearing

Well, people come and people go

I won't ever be the last man standing

Free to leave my post

'Cause even when I'm close, I'm far away