In the Darkness

Dreamt that I was driving an old truck up a dirt highway
It was somewhere up the rambling Central Coast
All the sudden drenched in darkness and the woman on the radio
Said a big rig just took out a power post

In the darkness my pale headlights hardly deigned to show the lane lines
Decided to go back the way I came
Drove a little while then I stopped there by the side
To see if I just might be slightly entertained

The ground was wet with insects like the plague was back upon us
and I saw some people walking up a hill
Followed a man with glasses on and we found some crooked concrete room
Knew that there was something here that kills

Spiders in cracked windows and a doorway leading nowhere
So I jumped right through to see though I was blind
A box crunched in a corner, picked it up and looked it over
Some fire glowed from way down deep inside

The ground was wet with insects like the plague was back upon us
and I saw some people walking up a hill
Followed a man with glasses on and we found some crooked concrete room
Knew that there was something here that kills

Never knew what I was looking for, and I lost the thing that caused the glow
Felt a little bit uncertain about that
But I woke with someone next to me held close and breathing easily
So I must be doing something not so bad