Slowness

Miles of highway poppies

A stretch of maybe flowers past Signal Hill away

We were parked and searching

For a hubcap rolling into the fields of thorn



Although we couldn't see a thing that night

And the stars in their slowness

And their slowness took us by surprise



If I never told you how you helped to rescue

The car and all inside

Remember roads were steep and

You and I went sliding down the grade from Gate's Pass



You asleep and me behind the wheel

Hovering in, in that slowness

And that slowness has never gone away



Although we couldn't see a thing that night

And the stars still shone and the stars still shone

And the stars still shone



In their slowness, in their slowness

In their slowness, in their slowness

And their slowness has never gone away