Del Amitri – Driving With The Brakes On (Guitar)

C
Driving through the long night

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trying to figure who's right and who's wrong.

                     C
Now the kid has gone.

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I sit belted up tight. She sucks on a match light, glowing bronze, steering on.

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And I might be more a man if I stopped this in its tracks

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and said come on, let's go home.

    F
But she's got the wheel,

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and I've got nothing except what I have on.

                              C
When you're driving with the brakes on.

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When you're swimming with your boots on.

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It's hard to say you love someone,

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and it's hard to say you don't.

C
Trying to keep the mood right,

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trying to steer the conversation from

                  C
the thing we've done.

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She shuts up the ashtray and I say "It's a long way back now hon", and she just yawns.

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And we might get lost someplace, so desolate that no one where we're from would ever come.

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But she's got the wheel

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and I've got to deal from now on.

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When you're driving with the brakes on.

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When you're swimming with your boots on.

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It's hard to say you love someone,

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and it's hard to say you don't.

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But unless the moon falls tonight,

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unless continents collide.

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Nothin's gonna make me

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break from her side.

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'Cos when you're driving with the brakes on.

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When you're swimming with your boots on.

                      F              G
It's hard to say you love someone,

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and it's hard to say you don't.

                      F              G
It's hard to say you love someone,

                         Am      F   C
and it's hard to say you don't.