I shouldn't have driven
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You shouldn't have driven - but we got there
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Had a good time, so we left the car
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And the cabby was from a war-zone
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We were glad he was driving us home
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I was gladder of some movement
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You took it on, you took it on board
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I said "Thank you, thank you, for loving me at my worst"
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If this isn't love it's very close
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Can you hear the world is waking up?
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Can we be crazy for a few more years?
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Have I got them in me?
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Bought myself one of those keyboard axes
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Wanted to get out and dance away from the piano
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That could have been the beginning of the end
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If I wasn't already in the middle
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The crowd was confused - and then they cheered
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My career it was back on track
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I was relieved, full of love for the people
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I said "Thank you, each and every one of you,
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For loving me at my worst"
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If this isn't love it's very close
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Can you hear the world is waking up?
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Can we be crazy for a few more years?
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Have I got them in me?
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All you bright and middle-aged things
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Attending your sons and daughters
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Spare a thought for me out here with the kids
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To hell with your bricks and mortar
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It's you and me and the Holy Ghost
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On the road to dawn heading down the coast
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We're better sorry than safe when you count the cost
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Mmm sorry than safe when you count the cost
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There's a bar out east called Scrum
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Only red wine and the finest of cigars
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And if we leave now we'll still get in
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You can find yourself a young consort
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Writers of unpopular fiction are trying to drink more
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Than bikies who've all left their beards at the door
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You'll drink all the wine and smoke your cigar
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And say "Thank you, thank you, for loving me at my worst"
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If this isn't love it's very close
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Can you hear the world is waking up?
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Can we be crazy for a few more years?
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Have I got them in me?
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Words and music by Tim Freedman
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Produced and engineered by Daniel Denholm
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Mixed by Rob Taylor
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Vocal, acoustic piano - Tim Freedman
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Telecaster guitar - Jack Housden
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Bar-room piano - Chris Abrahams
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Backing vocals - Bernie Hayes
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Keyboard axe - Matt Lovell
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Bass - Martin Craft
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Drums - Terepai Richmond
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Brass and strings arranged and conducted by Daniel Denholm
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Thanks Penny McDowell for the bikie line
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For Barnes
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Thankyou (for loving me at my worst)
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| The Whitlams |
