Track 5 of the EP Rainy Night Cab · 2022
Backseat Full of Strangers' Stories
“A cabbie in a car way too clean, with a hundred stories for four strangers. We wrote them all down.”
folk rock · warm storytelling folk · nostalgic jangle · 3:30
Lyrics
We got a ride from a cabbie in a town we'd never seen Four of us and a drum kit, in a car way too clean He said "I drove a poet once, and a bride in her gown I've driven every kind of heart across this town" Oh, a backseat full of strangers' stories Roll the windows down, let the city sing We're all just passing through someone's glory Hey, hey, we're all just passing through A backseat full of strangers' stories Hold the ones you love and hold them tight Every road's a song if you let it And we'll sing it till the morning light He played an old cassette of a band nobody knew Said "they never made it big, but they made it through" We sang along to every word we'd never heard before And he tipped his hat and said "now that's what the road is for" Oh, a backseat full of strangers' stories Roll the windows down, let the city sing We're all just passing through someone's glory Hey, hey, we're all just passing through A backseat full of strangers' stories Hold the ones you love and hold them tight Every road's a song if you let it And we'll sing it till the morning light He wouldn't take the fare, said "play me something true" So we sang him one right there, parked by the avenue And the streetlights hummed along like a choir in the rain And the meter stopped, and we were never the same Oh, a backseat full of strangers' stories Roll the windows down, let the city sing We're all just passing through someone's glory Hey, hey, we're all just passing through A backseat full of strangers' stories Hold the ones you love and hold them tight Every road's a song if you let it And we'll sing it till the morning light Hey, hey, we're all just passing through Hey, hey, we're all just passing through