I Hear the Sirens in the Street

MARTY MCFLY: Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me that you built a time machine … out of a DeLorean?

DR EMMETT BROWN: The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?

Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale, Back to the

Future (1985)

Now I lay me down to sleep

I hear the sirens in the street

All my dreams are made of chrome

I have no way to get back home

Tom Waits, “A Sweet Little Bullet

From A Pretty Blue Gun” (1978)