The Snow White Diner

I am eating hash browns in the snow white diner

Outside cars are honking, flashing lights on the bridge

They're pulling a car up from the bottom of the frozen lake

A woman drove her Saturn into the black water

Killed herself and her two kids trapped in the backseat

She'd lost her job and didn't want her kids to be poor

The diner is noisy, black coffee and sugar

Baskets of dinner rolls, outside the crowd is growing

Waiting by the drawbridge, hoping to see the dead woman's face

In the booth next to me there are two old women

Eating liver and onions and they're laughing too loud

And banging the tabletop, but then I see that they're deaf

I don't know why they're laughing, maybe the world's much nicer

If you can't hear the cars

They make me feel better like I'm drunk on a plane

And have forgotten that I'm afraid to fly