Columbia Market

12:00AM
Rest stop in some Carolina
Old Man doesn't drive but
Doesn't sleep either
Big Man drives
But wants sleep

2:00AM
Time to switch
Old Man will take us in

4:00AM
Red Columbia lights
Sleeping town
Old man revs the engine at every stop
Big man wakes up
"Best deals made before daylight"

7:00AM
Old man looks at every stall
Big man looks too
Neither happy but finally satisfied

9:00AM
Hot as hell
Breakfast in the diner
Old man knows everything
Big man knows almost everything
All I know it is hot

4:30PM
Almost home
Still hot
But we are almost there
Mama missed the exit
But Big Man Doesn't
151 never seemed so long

9:00PM
Truck is empty
Sleeps comes easy

15 years later
I miss those long hot days
I miss the Old Man
The Big Man has become old
All I wanted was to be a man
Now all I want to be is a child
Sitting in the middle
Between the Old Man and the Big Man

But the one thing I learned
From the market
You cannot be a child
When you are tired
When it is hot
You have to keep searching
For the best deal

Eventually you have to load
Get back home
And sell

The market
Will always be hot
You will always be tired
But the best deal awaits