Drive The Freeway

One thing I love about this song is how it let me reuse parts of the unfinished "American Air" scribblings from "That Girl From The Bar At Two In The Morning" for the chorus. The other was how positive the song eventually seems for a break-up song, and how it is, effortlessly, "That Girl From The Bar" part two, in a way. I didn't know I was writing about the same girl, but I was.

It also let me vent this sort of helpless feeling of how you feel when one relationship ends - you just want to get away, and I guess that was a younger me, back from the era of heart-makes and heart-breaks, speaking through this song. Hopefully it resolved some of the issues from my past in the process.

(Otherwise known as Misdirection And Miscarriage Are Not Mutually Exclusive)

"Excuses, excuses," she whispers
As she leaves her coat by the door;
Two years and she still doesn't know
What she's looking for.
He's too reckless with her heart
And too reckless with his head
So now the coat's snatched up
And she's driving again.

And she's driving,
Trying to forget him,
But she's goin' nowhere fast.

She's going nowhere, driving her car.
Ten miles to nowhere, never too far.
Screaming "I wanna forget the world."
Yeah, "I wanna forget the world.
Won't you give me a sign cos I,
I don't know where to turn."

"Miss me not," she whispers.
She knows he can't hear anymore.
A map of the freeway's
Spread out on the floor.
With the coffee to guide her
And a book she's never read,
The coat's on the back seat
And she's driving again.

And she's driving,
Trying to forget him,
But she's goin' nowhere fast.

She's going nowhere, driving her car.
Ten miles to nowhere, never too far.
Screaming "I wanna forget the world."
Yeah, "I wanna forget the world.
Won't you give me a sign cos I,
I don't know where to turn."

A freeway exit,
"Turn left for a new life
Cos now the times are changing."
Tell me that the snow changed what you know,
Like the leaves turn from Summer to Autumn.

And she's driving,
Trying to forget him,
But she's goin' nowhere fast.

She's going nowhere, driving her car.
Ten miles to nowhere, never too far.
Screaming "I wanna forget the world."
Yeah, "I wanna forget the world.
Won't you give me a sign cos I,
I don't know where to turn."

One day you will find
Some peace of mind to believe in.
So drive towards nowhere;
I know you can forget;
I know you'll forget the world.

She sings "Now I'll forget the world,
Cos now I know where to turn.
Now I'll forget the world,
Cos now I know where to turn.
Now I'll forget the world,
Cos now I know where to turn."