The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #91558   Message #1745141
Posted By: Jim Dixon
21-May-06 - 11:33 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Turn Signal (Robert Temple)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You've never driven behind you
The sound file at CD Baby is only an excerpt:

TURN SIGNAL

I been drivin' all over this land.
There's just one thing I don't understand:
To the left of the steering wheel lies that little stick.
Why don't you help us out and give it a flick?
'Cause your car is kinda heavy and it's better that we knew
What you were tryin' to do.
Hey, hey, turn signal, why don't you use it?
Turn signal, you can't abuse it.
Turn signal, you don't have a clue,
'Cause you've never driven behind you.

Maybe you think it was a dealer option—
Only.
Like the TV ad, you think that you own the road,
Own the road solely.
Sometimes you spread a careless thing.
Monkey see, monkey do....

[As recorded by Robert Temple and his Soulfolk Ensemble, on "What Would You Do?", 2005.]