Dinosaur Roadside Sunset

Saw your head above the service station Painted green against the cloudless

blue

Twenty feet of prehistoric patience Waiting there

with nothing else to do Your little gift shop closed a decade

back The ice machine was rusting by the door We pulled over

just to take a picture

With the roadside dinosaur

You never ask where anybody’s going

You just watch the whole parade roll by

Roadside dinosaur Standing where you’ve always stood before

You’ve seen a million summers Come shining through the windshield Roadside dinosaur

We don’t need a reason anymore

If everybody passes We’ll be the ones who stop

Someone carved their name into the railing

Someone left a quarter at your feet

Your faded sign said five more miles to nowhere Like nowhere was

exactly what we needed

We bought warm soda from a vending machine

And stretched our legs beneath your shadow

The map said we were running three hours late We didn’t really

have anywhere to go

You never ask where anybody’s going

You just watch the whole parade roll by

Roadside dinosaur Standing where you’ve always stood before

You’ve seen a million summers Come shining through the windshield Roadside dinosaur

We don’t need a reason anymore

If everybody passes We’ll be the ones who stop

Maybe you remember station wagons

Paper maps and postcards in the mail

Kids who climbed your tail became their parents

Now they bring their own kids down the trail

Everything keeps moving past your kingdom

Every coat of paint gives way to rain

But if we ever take this road together

I hope you’re there again

Roadside dinosaur Standing where you’ve always stood before

You’ve seen a million summers Come shining through the windshield Roadside dinosaur

You made nowhere worth stopping for

Let everybody pass us

We’re not in a hurry now

Your shadow stretching west across the pavement

Evening settling softly on the road

We waved goodbye to sixty million years And watched you disappear below