Picture of My Dress - The Mountain Goats

I’m at a truck stop in New Mexico just before dawn

Somebody’s grandma behind the wheel of a big rig

Pulling in with her headlights on

We smoke a cigarette as the sunrise runs riot

Someone’s got to break the quiet

And she says, «what are you doing here anyway?

And I smile and say, «you'd never guess»

She holds it up for me by its skinny white shoulder straps

While I, I take a picture of my dress

I take a picture of my dress

I’m in the bathroom of a Dallas Texas Burger King

Steven Tyler is on the overhead speakers

He doesn’t want to miss a thing

Out there at the counter

I blend in with the lunchtime crowd

Try not to laugh out loud

I eat half my crispy chicken club

I get extra mayonnaise, it’s a mess

I take the other half out to the parking lot with me

Pop the trunk and take a picture of my dress

I take a picture of my dress

It still looks good, I only wore it once

Four years ago, four years and seven months

It may be a long time before the highway

Decides to finally set me free

I’m going to have to chase down the remnants

Of something special that you stole from me

It may be hiding in the sunset, or in distant corners of the dawn

Or maybe it’s gone

But I say some prayers above the engine

I bless everything there is to bless

Run out of gas in the middle of nowhere anyway

Stand by the roadside smiling

And take a picture of my dress

I take a picture of my dress

I take a picture of my dress

I take a picture of my dress