Down off the beach The women wear gold and white dresses Worlds of pearl and crystal glassed slpendor
I can get there in twenty minutes on the motorcycle If she starts
But what a night it will be If I make enough to buy liquor Or a blue night home
The moon peaks just up above the sable palms The night is warm and brimming with stars The smell of gasoline and wind full of ocean salt Where my home is by the sand Blown into my heart And no matter how I shake it Or try to hose it off The salt remains crusted The smell of sea and home
Up town to mainstreet Where little Cuban joints Like to keep the neon glow Where drunken black boys Smoke *** in the yard girls sit cross legged on the roof Of squat sea blown houses Painted pink, and blue and white Like Miami hotel lobbies
The spedometer is broken Just a haunting yellow glow As onto Seaway I turn More sea than road God put this road here for me Right here on a warm night Where I can speed by the brilliant Candle lit yards and dull sidewalk lamplight The smell is strong of sea there Heavy on the sky The moon is a yellow crescent Up above the ocean black But the bike shifts clean and quiet And the yacht clubs up the road Are Shining bright Where Pretty girls dance Red lipped in yellow lights