High speed drift on a prairie road
   hot tires sing like a string being bowed
   sudden town rears up then explodes
   fragments resolve into white line code
   whirl on silver wheels (chorus)
  
   black earth energy receptor fields
   undulate under a grey cloud shield
   we outrun a river colour brick red mud
   that cleaves apart hills soil rich as blood
  
   highway squeeze in construction steam
   stop caution hard hat yellow insect machines
   silver steel towers stalk rolling land
   toward distant stacks that shout "Feed on demand"
  
   100 miles later the sky has changed
   urban anticipation -- we get 4 lanes
   redorange furnace sphere notches down
   throws up silhouette skyline in brown
  
   sundogs flare on windshield glass
   sudden swoop skyward iron horse overpass
   pass a man walking like the man in the moon
   walking like his head's full of irish fiddle tunes
  
   the skin around every city looks the same
   miles of flat neon spelling well-known names
   USED TRUCKS DIRTY DONUTS YOU YOU'RE THE ONE
   fat wheeled cars squeal into the sun
  
   radio speakers gargle top 40 trash
   muzak soundtrack to slow collapse
   planet engines pulsate in sidereal time
   if you listen close you can hear the whine