Driving In The Rain Lyrics - 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 you'd left you'd be back once again 

There's a glint in your eyes and the sky starts to laugh 

It's two to one you never did things by half 

And I'm out on the rooftops yelling your name 

Cos without you this town will be too much the same 

You went driving in the rain 

I'll never see you again 

There's nothing in the air left to compare 

To all of your passion and genius pain 

You went driving in the rain 

I'll 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-one's that blind 

And there's flowers have bloomed down the side of your street 

Where you and your demons did openly meet 

And I hope it's wide open where you've got to 

There's closed minds in this town that couldn't accept you 

(chorus) 

They're making excuses, the reasons the facts 

They're reasoning how long you'll take to come back 

But there's guilt in their prayers, maybe shame in their pride 

They know it was no fault of yours down inside 

They steps can't be retraced cos tracks disappear 

And there'd be no welcome for you back here 

Because you were the worst side of everyone's soul 

They had to get rid or face up to the cold 

(chorus)