<<--but hardly alone -- I love the album, and that's one of the better songs on it! The vivid, scathing sound to that statement: "You dream flat tires!" = "You only have boring, irritating dreams!", at least in my mind...>>
It's a great use of the car metaphor as relationship (although done better by RLJ in "Last Chance Texaco"), I think in a nutshell what she's saying is that the guy is not very ambitious in the relationship, that he's happy with just a "flirtation" while she desires it to be "extra special company". It could just be a Venus & Mars thing... Mostly I just love the way the music pulses...you get the feeling that Joni was enjoying the return to more straightforward rhythms after Mingus. Bob NP: Shelby Lynne, "Jesus On A Greyhound"
