Driving Song Lyrics

Your mother she protected you And softened every blow And brought you up to fear the worst To be careful as you go And the learned educators With drip-feed (thrifty?) facts to fil...Read Full Lyrics

Clear light on a slick palm As I mis-deal the day Slip the night from a shaved pack Make a marked card play Call twilight hours down From a heaven home High above the highest bidde...Read Full Lyrics

I'm slipping into grey. And I was (in my way) good to you. And you were good for me. Bye bye my love. Going to play the end game. It's growing kind of still. You know there always ...Read Full Lyrics

In the late hours of a sunset rendezvous --- Chill breeze against tide, that carries me from you. Got a job in a southern city --- got some lead-free in my tank. Now I must whisper...Read Full Lyrics

As one, wet merchants turn their eyes towards the west. Trade winds falter as if in dire consequence. Freezing fish to fry, fail to materialise. Christ-child, blood-warm current se...Read Full Lyrics

She smiles at me From beyond the eastern sea-shore. Flashing jewelled eyes, She hoists her skirts so high. Nouvelle cuisine or an oyster bar --- It's really up to her. I'll write e...Read Full Lyrics

Fallen on hard times --- but it feels good to know That milk and honey's just around the bend. Running on bad lines --- we'd better run as we go, Tear up, tear up the overdraft aga...Read Full Lyrics

Placing people in their dreamscape With fantasies of foreign fields Lofty spires all well appointed In off-season special deals To far Alaska... Down to Rio in the Carnival Norweg...Read Full Lyrics

Nine miles of two-strand topped with barbed wire Laid by the father for the son. Good shelter down there on the valley floor, Down by where the sweet stream run. Now they might giv...Read Full Lyrics

Don't want to be a fat man, People would think that I was Just good fun. Would rather be a thin man, I am so glad to go on being one. Too much to carry around with you, No chance o...Read Full Lyrics