Damn this traffic jam
How I hate to be late
It hurts my motor to go to slow
Damn this traffic jam
Time I get home
My supper’ll be cold
Damn this traffic jam
Well I left my job about 5:00
It took 15 minutes to go 3 blocks
Just in time to stand in line
With the freeway looking like a parking lot
Damn this traffic jam
How I hate to be late
It hurts my motor to go to slow
Damn this traffic jam
Time I get home
My supper’ll be cold
Damn this traffic jam
Now I almost had a heart attack
Looking in my rear view mirror
I saw myself the next car back
Looking in the rear view mirror
About to have a heart attack
I said damn this traffic jam……
Now when I die I don’t want no coffin
I thought about it all too often
Just strap me in behind the wheel
And bury me with my automobile
Damn this traffic jam……..
Now I used to think that I was cool
Running around on fossil fuel
Until I saw what I was doing
Was driving down the road to ruin.
Traffic Jam, James Taylor, 1977 — The song is inspired by an actual traffic jam on the Pacific Coast Highway in Los Angeles. Taylor ends the songs with a statement about “fossil fuels”.
Philly Talks Climate 