Tom Pacheco DRIFTING LIKE A FLOWER She packed her suitcase, got in the car Drove out of Cleveland like a shooting star She left her husband, and the life she'd known There was no going back, the dice were thrown Along the highway she was laughing She felt so free and felt so wild It was so long since she'd been that way To be as reckless as a child Drifting like a flower down the river Drifting like a flower down the river The sky burnt orange, the sun was gone She stopped beside a bar called the "Lucky Song" She ordered brandy and met someone She spent the nite with him, he made her feel so young She left at sunrise, he was sleeping She wanted no ties, none at all Into the unknown she was leaping With no idea where she might fall Two thousand miles of crazy road By lonesome trailer parks and towns she drove She worked in Denver and in Cheyenne She spent that winter down in the Yucataan The universe is tantalizing She was not meant to be a wife She had enough of compromising She's drinking every drop of life