Gotta Get Out

Taxi

Taxi

TAXI!

Hi... hi

I'm not usually inclined to take up useless conversations with a

Taxi Driver

But I saw as I was walking all these taxis

Without passengers in constant circulation

Without a destination

And that's not what life should be about

So we're gonna get out

Cross the bridge, take the road to another state

We'll sit back through the noise and the traffic and wait

For some kind of scenery change

Wait till the view from our windows is strange

Trust me, I'm not crazy I can see you

Making faces in the rearview mirror

I will pay you what the meter says, just drive me up the highway

I don't care how far the way is

I guess what I'm trying to say is

In the bike lane of life, sometimes you gotta get out

What?

Weren't you listening? I -I don't know where to!

You're the professional!

You should be making these kinds of decisions

I am really not a person who is qualified to tell you where we

Should be going

I mean, I just left my boyfriend standing back there on the sidewalk

Which is bad enough without disclosing

He was actually proposing

That's it!

There isn't any doubt

That I gotta get out

Hit the gas, make a turn, let this taxi speed

Cause there isn't a thing in the world that I need

More than someplace my head can be clear

Probably miles and miles from here

I don't mean to freak, and I don't mean to shout

But right now, GOD, I've really gotta get out

I can't stay here anymore

I just gotta get out

Though I still don't really know what I am getting out for

I should be near him and, Christ, feel happy

But it's like something's changed inside of my DNA

I just want to tell him that I'm lost and that I'm frightened

But something's there that smothers all the words I want to say

So how I can be what makes him happy?

When I can't even make a promise that I will stay?

I've gotten used to keeping all this space between us

And when he looks right at me

I just want to run away

So I gotta get out

Yes, the only thing to do

Is to get myself out

And accept the fact we're through

We won't get that far

Staying where we are

Oh my god! Stop the car!

I gotta get out!