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Down the freeway,
See the glow light up the night
And weaving through the foothills,
Glimpses of this city's lights
It's a city of demons for me
Lurking in the fold of the hills,
Its hiding, keeping its advantage
Down the tollway,
Further into the heart of the spreading monster
Twisting, turning, dipping, weaving
All the other drivers speeding
The hand of apprehension clutches my throat
Claws at my coping mind
Deprives me of my voice
Glancing off the centre,
Streets I recognise
Here's where I took that "e" that went so bad
Never do that again
That's the Cross down there
Where playing "Knocking on Heaven's Door" to drunkards
Was my only grip on life
But not tonight
The roads here shift and change
As if the city was made of sand
Before you know it, you've taken a wrong turn
But don't fight it,
Just drift into an eddy where you can
Scratch your head about where you went wrong
There's no margin for error in the stream
Out Old South Head Road now to Bondi,
There the "forest bods" are waiting.
They've worked hard
For the attention of this city, yeah
Driven by the urgency
Of their acknowledged responsibility
Out of their sweet, complacent havens in the North
And down into the heart of the monster
To spread the word, to raise a quid,
And struggle against the woodchip machine for another year
Another year....
Another year
I was here,
But I was different then
My mind now is superimposed on my mind then,
Everything I see is met with two sets of reactions
Almost as if
The me I might have been has been waiting for me here,
Lurking in damp, piss-reeking alleyways,
Hiding behind skips and wheely-bins
I turn my head, is that my face?
Yellow webbing satchel and busted guitar case,
But it's someone's else's black leather shoulders
Shrugging in the cold
And I know I'm rolling, rolling - ah,
Speeding, speeding - ah,
Freewheeling - ah!
Rolling, rolling - ah,
Speeding, speeding - ah,
Freewheeling, - ah!
And so are the wheels of this world, embodied in this city,
So are the wheels of this world embedded in this city
So are the gears of this world crashing in this city,
The gnashing fears of this world clashing in this city
My mind now is superimposed on my mind then,
Down into the heart of the monster we go,
To spread the message everyone already knows
And I know that
My car runs as blood in the veins of the monster,
My car runs as blood in the veins of the monster,
My blood runs in my veins in my car
My car runs as blood in the veins of the monster,
My car HIV, Hep C in the veins of the world,
My blood runs in my veins in my car
The monster is powered by me and myriads like me,
The monster's powered by me and myriads like me,
My blood runs in my veins in my car
The monster is powered by me and myriads like me,
The monster's powered by me and myriads like me
Even as we scream - STOP!
Penelope Swales has been articulating the human condition with passion and humour for 30+ years. She sings about politics,
love, friendship, the unbreakable bond between us and dogs and the impact of the Internet on society. She won the 2019 Alistair Hulett Songs for Social Justice Award with “Cambridge Analytica”. “The Ides of March in Christchurch" was short-listed for the same award in 2020....more
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