Minutes To Downtown - Jackson Browne

No, I wasn’t looking for a door into the morning again

No, I wasn’t thinking you would ever be more than a friend

The years I’ve seen that fell between my date of birth and yours

Fade before the altered shore of a river changing course

No, I didn’t think that I would ever feel this way again

No, not with a story this long and this close to the end

And though I try to fathom why home feels strange to me

More and more the other shore is what I need to see

Minutes slip away, minutes become days

Minutes to downtown, minutes to the Coast Highway

Forever on this freeway dreaming of my getaway

Don’t know how I’m still in LA

Now, there may be nothing left for us

But what pleasure can teach

Now, deep in the moment with the future so out of reach

I see that smile and even while it breaks my heart I laugh

That’s because this heart was already torn in half

Minutes slip away, minutes become days

Minutes to downtown, minutes to the Coast Highway

And I’m out on this freeway, still plotting my getaway

Don’t know how I’m still in LA