7:30 in the morning in a Mickey D’s drive thru,
Two muffins, one coffee and a little bitty orange juice,
I saw a man with a sign on the corner,
I rolled my window down, handed him a dollar.
That’s when I heard her ask,
“Hey, Daddy, who was that?”
And before I could answer back
She said,
“Daddy, look, there’s a plane in the sky!
Are we there yet? Did you just see that dog run by?
Do squirrels have houses in the trees?
Why’d God put stingers on honeybees?”
It’s crazy all the things she sees on the side of the road
Outta that window beside her.
I wish I could be more like her,
My little dangling feet, pretty in pink, backseat driver.
Later on that day, on the highway back home
I saw a lady in a black Mercedes yelling at her phone,
She flew by me with her finger in the air,
And I had to act like I didn’t care.
And that’s when I heard her ask,
“Daddy, why was she so mad?”
Before I could answer back
She said,
“Daddy, can you please turn up the radio?
Hey, what are you pushing with your feet that makes us go?
Do squirrels have houses in the trees?
Why’d God put stingers on honeybees?”
It’s crazy, y’all, the things she sees on the side of the road
Outta that window beside her.
I wish I could be more like her,
My little dangling feet, pretty in pink, backseat driver.
One day, I’ll look back and I’ll miss when
My whole world wasn’t over that dash,
It was back there buckled in
Saying, “Daddy, look, there’s a plane in the sky
Are we there yet? Did you just see that dog run by?
Do squirrels have houses in the trees?
Why’d God put stingers on honeybees?”
It’s crazy all the things she sees on the side of the road
Outta that window beside her.
I wish I could be more like her,
My little dangling feet, pretty in pink, backseat driver.
Hmm, my backseat driver.
7:30 in the morning in a Mickey D’s drive thru,
Two muffins, one coffee and a little bitty orange juice.
