With A Smile Lyrics - Rainbirds

this is a tired old world i want 

news from elsewhere 

good news 

bad news 

on picture-postcards 

this is a blind spot 

this is an empty lot 

i need a radio 

i need a hilltop 

i want my news from elsewhere 

it is a mighty long way from 

here to elsewhere 

uphill 

downhill 

wish i had a 

fourwheel-drive 

wish i was a contender 

but you are never standing 

by the roadside 

you are never waving at me 

i would be rather happy here 

if i could tell you where i will be 

passing by 

with a smile 

t` is a funny idea that i should 

be from somewhere 

isn`t it obvious 

that i have never 

never ever been there 

i`m on the look-out 

i don`t belong here 

it would be wonderfull 

if i was wrong 

i would be rather happy here 

if i could tell you where i will be 

passing by 

with a smile 

(spoken words:) 

In the wooden shed he found a piece of cardboard on which the previous 

occupant had written: "how can i please myself when i have no self to 

please?³ "sorry, young man³ -thought Burroughs- "i think you are 

kidding yourself. as long as you talk to yourself, you have a self. the 

self is a pimping, blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to 

there on word lines.³