Del Amitri, Driving With The Brakes On (1992)
Key: :[Db] (w: Justin Currie)
VERSE 1:
[Db] Driving through the long night, trying to figure who's right and who's
[A#m] wrong
Now the kid has
[Db] gone.
I sit belted up tight, she sucks on a match light, glowing
[A#m] bronze, steering
[Db] on.
And I
[Gb] might be more a man if I
[Ab] stopped this in it's tracks, and said come
[A#m] on, let's go
[Db] home.
But
[Gb] she's got the wheel, and
[Ab] I've got nothing except what I have
[Db] on.
[Gb]
CHORUS:
When you're driving with the
[Db] brakes on. When you're swimming with you're
[A#m] boots on.
It's hard to say you love
[Gb] someone,
[Ab] and it's hard to say you
[A#m] don't
[Gb] [Ab]
VERSE 2:
[Db] Trying to keep the mood right, trying to steer the conversation
[A#m] from, the thing we've
[Db] done.
She shuts up the ashtray, and I say it's a long way back now
[A#m] hon, and she just
[Db] yawns.
And
[Gb] we might get lost someplace, so
[Ab] desolate that no one's where we're
[A#m] from, would ever
[Db] come
But
[Gb] she's got the wheel, and
[Ab] I've got to deal from now
[Db] on.
[Gb]
REPEAT CHORUS:
BRIDGE:
But unless the moon
[Db] falls tonight,
[A#m] [Gb] unless continents col-
[A#m]-lide.
[Gb] [Db]
Nothing's gonna
[A#m] make me
[Gb] [Ab] break from her
[A#m] side.
[Gb] [Ab]
REPEAT CHORUS:
OUTRO:
It's hard to say you love
[Gb] someone,
[Ab] and it's hard to say you
[A#m] don't
[Gb] [Db]