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Driver Eight - "Watermelon" (TN1051)

1. watermelon

once upon a longer time we fell over
thought that we could do it by ourselves
you and me are happy thieves sleeping nightly
take your lips and rest them on a shelf, ask yourself

watermelon it's your insides that your selling
watermelon take a bite, wipe your mouth, walk away

handle words like singing birds you my keeper
tell me everything that I should know
thank you fans this happy man knows what's deeper
hold me hard and never let me go

I can't see who you are, what you are

2. polish

you've got me blown away
and what else could I say
i feel like I'm the one
at least I'm part of some...half of us is one

polish this one off

there's love inside of you
please tell me what to do
if you'd open up my door
i'd only want some more

3. cheers

if I left the light on would you wait or could you take it all i need is not to know the
anything you speak to me and if you open up this thing again i'll punch you out

your right and I don't care what you say

all i want is mindless chatter "cheers" i just needed all the times I felt responsible well
that's the game i'll play you like a matador or else i'll punch you

4. strange


take hold of the sound, if there's a better way you had better stay close
it makes no sense, i saw something there, something over there
you can have it down
drive myself to town
you can have it down

it's so beyond me I can say, it's so strange

5. getting this thing to go

you're upside down, you're all worked out
it's easier to see it when your going down
my mind has sped, one hundred years ahead
it's easier to see it when you lose your head

that's when I catch you on the way to feel...that's when i make my plans

nothing new, like black and blue
it's easier to see it when I wait for you
it's full of holes, these hands I fold
it's easier to see it when I lose control

that's when I catch you on the way to feel...that's when i make my plans

you're a thing of beauty
when you see right through me
i suppose, if only i could get this thing to go

6. waiting for Godot

scary where you go, at night there's no one home, scary where you go

if the kids are all O.K. then how did they get hear, still waiting for Godot

just make this feeling go and I'll be happy
make it go away and i'll be sad
cause I am bigger than I thought i could be
just save me if it all comes crashing

tell me where you go when all the deals are blown, tell me where you go
funny how it is when you must invent, funny how it is

everywhere you go the smiles are plastiscene, everywhere you go
psycho-analyzed and puzzled ear to ear, well at least you tried

7. brown paper bag

you love to sit it down, you hold your tired crown

so tired of looking so far from trucking
you said it's a crazy time i said it crossed your mind
you'll find another, you've found another inside it's not the same

had enough of you...it's true

it's in my paper bag, i know it's such a drag
so far from looking so far from trucking
you said you know you well, i said that i can't tell
you'll find another, you've found another, inside it's not the same

i'll see your love suffer and i'll see your fire burn out

8. drive

finally got this thing in gear and now we're gone won't see things
funny how these dots and lines can ease your mind and take me away

the way back home

winding in and out of sleep and fairy tales if things we've seen
the air is hotter then when we were standing still take me away

the way back home

9. sunbittern

I wanna sit you down, i wanna find you out, are you gonna stay
I'm gonna take you there, take you to the fair, you said you had to go to places way
far out there, go to places i can't go there and i'll...fly away

i'm gonna treasure you, i'm gonna ask you to, take some time for tea

you said you had to go to some place i don't know strawberries in spring won't
happen til we get there, through the ocean blue like rainbows do fly...fly away

can i run and hold you down
airplanes and telegrams
visit if you can


10. carrousel

find the window sill fastner
find the will to go faster
flip the switch and dream the star around the block in harold's car
find the will to go faster


everything you swore you wanted
lay every kiss down
oh you came you taunted
around in circles spinning around


tell us what you're after
cause every body here's an actor
talk real big and ride around til you get sick
tell us all what your after

11. superglue

i know i don't feel so fine and she knows i don't feel so fine
and she knows i have spent the time
so tie my eyes behind my back, so next time i can see behind


call it all the stuff you want to
put my heart back with some superglue
super dreams are silly stupid things
now i know


feel my hand won't it be grand to stay this way today no end
just knock me down you'll see no frown,
just kiss me where it hurts

call it all the stuff you want to
put my heart back i don't want you to
super dreams are big and wild things
now i love