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Taxi Lady

from Failed Novels by Sam Steffen

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Taxi Lady copyright sam steffen 2014

Taxi lady, tell me where to—can I take you long the avenue?
You still lookin for that prince you said you knew? And does he still have your other shoe?

Taxi lady, I guess it’s been a while—I’m glad to see tho that you still ain’t lost your style
But say what happened to your winning smile? It used to be worth more than just a mile

Taxi lady, how’d you get to be so sad—you look just like you lost whatever chance you had
But nevermind you’ll see it ain’t that bad, once you’ve had a ride in my good ol taxi cab

Taxi lady, won’t you tell me what you want, expensive dinner at some four star restaurant?
To spend a whole night at the hotel Altamont? You name the date and I can take you if you want

Taxi lady, can I take you for a ride, up to the highway or the lonesome riverside
You seem like the kind of girl with nothing left to hide, I’m the kind of man with nothing left inside

Taxi lady, tell me where you’re comin from, it’s so cold tonight my hands are getting numb
I can’t tell you how many miles I’ve just come, not to get to you but just to anyone

At the next stop take a right, then go down there right on through that trafficlight
You can circle the block a couple times it’s alright, but taxi, take me home tonight

Taxi lady, well, now that you asked, I got lots of troubles all up buried in my past
I try to get away but this taxi ain’t too fast, seems like some of what is there is there to last

Taxi lady tell me how you been, you know I haven’t always driven this machine
I used to have a job I wrote songs for a queen, it was a lot like this if you know what I mean

Taxi lady, keep your change this one’s on me, you find me again and you can always ride for free
I ain’t scared of having no place to be, I’m just afraid of having no one to take with me

Taxi lady won’t you take the whole night off, we’ll go wherever you can possibly think of
And if by the end you still ain’t had enough I got a bottle waiting back in the garage

Taxi lady tell me what you got to lose, another evening settin at home with the blues
This ain’t no limosine but it’ll do for just a cruise, down past the marquis and the crowded avenues

Taxi lady, say again where do you live, I hope it ain’t among that crowd I seen you with
Don’t say you’re sorry I don’t know what that is, I’m one of those whose done too much sinning to forgive

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Taxi lady, will you ever find your prince? I heard he lives up in those project tenements
You know I barely make enough to pay my rents, but I don’t want your money, I’ll just take your compliments

Taxi lady, how bout some other night, we’ll get together, we’ll do it right
Give me a signal but please make it bright; you put out your hand and I’ll put out my light

Taxi lady, I must bid thee now, adieu; I feel somehow that our acquaintanceship ain’t thru
I can’t tell you who to be or what to do, but there’s a thousand more out here tonight like you

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from Failed Novels, released November 3, 2014

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Sam Steffen Boise, Idaho

Sam Steffen is a Pennsylvania-bred, Boise-based singer-songwriter whose songs are the torch-wood for a new generation of folk music that has learned from the best stuff in the tradition and aims in spite of everything to keep the human spirit alive and kicking. A versatile musician and skilled finger-picker, Sam is at heart a story-teller, and a prolific one. ... more

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