Blackness - Arab Strap

Drive through the fields tonight

Stop on our usual hill

Turn up the new tunes

Admit it, you need her still

Speed up when I’m coming up

She laughs in time with the track

Tonight is a school night

And it’s time we got her back

Race through the trees

Brave the back roads with ease

They couldn’t catch us tonight

On the beach at the dock

You bring the cans and we’ll talk

Grab me in case I take flight

Ignorance is the worst part

She wasn’t out on Friday night

I just wanted to catch her eye

Then ignore, prove I’m alright

And it took hours to walk home

And I had a few on my own

I wanted to hear her

But he answered the phone

When she started to wear make-up

New clothes and new hair

That’s when her sex-drive died

Drive me up to the door

You know I’ve done it before

At least I’ll know I’ve tried

Just keep your foot down and it’ll all be fine

If we can keep up with the broken line

The corpses we’ve seen are just empty bags

As we dismiss our broken hearts as slags

Slow down when I come down

This is the only love

Just us and the bright green sky

Glowing and pulsing above