5 Degrees Below Zero

5 degrees below zero - Richmond Fontaine

Ray Thaves at 2am

Sitting towards the back of a Greyhound

He sits next to an overweight lady

With metal braces

On both her legs

And she sits there coughing

He tries to just look out the window

Into the desert

Where it's 5 degrees below zero

Having to move back into his uncle's house

In Las Vegas

With no money no apartment

And no

Car and no motorcycle

His music

Collection gone everything's been pawned

A guy who sits behind him keeps getting up

And going to the bathroom

Says he's been up for days

And the speeds still showing

Tries to

Just stare out the window

Snow covers

Everything and it's 5 degrees below zero

Above him is a sea of stars unseen

Because of the weather

He tries not to look at his reflection

In the window and

There's two guys in front of him

Quietly drinking off a

Bottle and he can feel that feel

Feel that feel still pulling

A girl across the aisle is giving herself

An ink pen tattoo

And her kid sits next to her

And her kid is crying

So he finally gets up and walks to the

Front of the bus to the bus driver

"Pull Over Pull Over "

He yells at the bus driver

And the bus driver

He just pulls over

He gets off the bus

Just in a T-shirt and leaves his

Coat and all his things aboard

As the bus pulls away

He walks out into the desert

And he can see the city lights

In the distance

So he just walks into the opposite direction

Swimming in a sea of rage

That dissipates with the cold

But hours have now passed

Doesn't know which way to go

He tries to find the highway

But snow covers everything

And it's 5 degrees below zero