False Identification

Can’t say you didn’t see the flashing lights
REDlights in the wet black night air
telling you to stop
Maybe you didn’t think it was fair
Maybe you didn’t care; boys like speed
pull over, take a break from
the fast lane, fast girl, fast heart
just couldn’t say no to that gas pedal, could you?
Leaning in your window with a where’s-the-fire? look
Let’s see some ID, boy
And you fumble, nervous
You look away- Your heart’s here somewhere
I had it..just a minute ago..I know it’s here...
Waiting, tapping a pen, trying to find a way to
Let you off the hook, tell me something reasonable here
Here it is! plastic, laminated to keep the weather we know as
Life away, keep the picture the same
Hate to get this thing caught in the wash, right?
Flick on a flashlight, dark tonight, rainy
Peering ..I could have sworn you were bigger
Than this, would’ve thought you had more to you..
I can be wrong
Wait a minute..this can’t be mine
Too small, too cold, too unlike
No this heart is surely someone else’s
Tryin’ to pull a fast one on me?
You think I’m blind, that i can’t tell one good heart from one so
Pristine and pale, so sick, so tired and worn?
You think I can’t see this is a fake?
You can’t possibly be the person I gave my heart to..
It couldn’t live in a world so cold as the one you hold in your hands....
Don’t smile so hard at me, boy, you don’t know how close you are Going as fast as you are, you’re a
damn hazard to everyone else on the road
I guess I’ll have to let you go
This time, buddy
But here’s your warning; I suggest
Find your brakes
The next time I may not let you go so easy.

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Author's Note: Thanks to the song "U R" by Alanis Morisette; her line about fake identification sparked something in my head..and thanks to John, whose lies fed the flow.