Driving in The Rain — текст песни (John Wesley Harding)

With all your vice and volume the whole of last week

The plastic pretenders to paradise speak

Of your fictions of triumph and legends of pain

The sense that youd left youd be back once again

Theres a glint in your eyes and the sky starts to laugh

Its two to one you never did things by half

And Im out on the rooftops yelling your name

Cos without you this town will be too much the same



You went driving in the rain

Ill never see you again

Theres nothing in the air left to compare

To all of your passion and genius pain

You went driving in the rain

Ill never see you again





There was talk of an illness that came by surprise

The papers did penance, the whole town took sides

Oh, but it was your dancing and mischeivous mind

And then we were shot of you, but no-ones that blind

And theres flowers have bloomed down the side of your street

Where you and your demons did openly meet

And I hope its wide open where youve got to

Theres closed minds in this town that couldnt accept you





(chorus)





Theyre making excuses, the reasons the facts

Theyre reasoning how long youll take to come back

But theres guilt in their prayers, maybe shame in their pride

They know it was no fault of yours down inside

They steps cant be retraced cos tracks disappear

And thered be no welcome for you back here

Because you were the worst side of everyones soul

They had to get rid or face up to the cold





(chorus)