Bus Driver Lyrics - Intimate Portrait - Caedmons Call

I am a bus driver and it's four in the morning 

And I'm pressing out my clothes beside my bed 

Fourteen years been on the job and with many miles behind 

Still I'm up at three thirty to make sure I'm there on time 

And my car gets me along just fin, to and from the station 

But my castle is this Houston Metro Bus 

My first stop is Ash bury and that sign's been gone for years 

But same the people wait 'cause they know that I'll be there 

What would you say if I told you that I won't be by today? 

Would you say that I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know 

I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know 

I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know? 

Well, I'm always there by five fifteen but lately I've been early 

'Cause Judith likes to be in early to the bank 

And she gives me conversation and a token good for riding 

Says she's happy all alone 

And then there's Charles in retail sales and I hope they pay him well 

for the work that young man does 

'Cause I've never seen the inside of a custom refrigerator 

But I know that he's the first and last one there 

What would you say if I told you that, "I won't be by today"? 

Would you say that I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know 

I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know 

I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know, well and what do I know 

And I wonder what they do all day and their respective works 

Suppose they give money and take money away 

And I'm just orbiting this town with the post office, my son 

And I'm circling again 

And I wonder how this world would be 

Well if I was never here to drive this bus around from Ash bury to Main 

I guess this town would be the same but with one bus' less exhaust 

But that bank and retail stores, they just wouldn't be the same 

And what can I see from the limited confines of my bus driving seat? 

Only me and 

I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know 

I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know 

I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know 

I'm just a bus driver, well and what do I know 

I'm just a bus driver, well they don't believe that 

I'm just a bus driver, well they don't believe that 

I'm just a bus driver, I say, "Don't believe that" 

We're all just bus drivers and it's time to go home