Story Behind The Song
written at the farm where my wife keeps her horse on a peanut (a small nylon string guitar)
Song Description
evokes somehwere between there and now
| Song Length |
2:41 |
Genre |
Rock - Easy Listening, Pop - General |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Charming, Poignant |
Subject |
Life, Loneliness |
| Similar Artists |
Beck, Elvis Costello |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1970 - 1979 |
| |
Lyrics
When I act like a well carved block of wood
There's a split in me I made in childhood
Now I drift
Now I drift
Only a song could say just how I felt
Original parts in a story a tell myself
Now I drift
Now I drift
What do you make of it, is it bad or good?
Now that you've lived with it, is it understood?
When I left that steel town
I had a lot to learn
Like where to sleep and how to make dinner,
hold a job, get a girl, learn to serve and use my hands.
What do you make of it? Is it any good
Now that you've played with it, it is understood?
There was a split in me, you healed it now I'm good.
And so I drift, I drift, I drift. I drift.
Drift, drift, drift