Sitting Targets - Live by Peter Hammill Lyrics
[Spoken Intro]
The next one is actually the title song on the newest album, this is Sitting Targets
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
We can talk about it in the car;
We can talk about it with the drive
Keep your eyes on the road up ahead
Don't forget what we said about staying alive
And na, na, na, na, na, na, a few hours more
I'd have cracked up, I'd say
Oh, you never can tell when it's coming;
It's so hard getting out of the way;
But to be sitting targets is surely
No better than running away...
[Chorus 1]
Sitting targets in the car
I'll be thinking about it –
It's not so far, not so far
Not too far to drive
[Verse 2]
Ooh, this time we madе our getaway
We'd been stalling for too long
Keep your eyеs on the road up ahead
While I try to forget what's been going wrong
Yeah, you'd better check up on the CB
See what Tail-End Charlie say:
Oh, you never can tell how it's going
Oh, you never can really say how it's been
But to stay sitting targets is surely
No better than living a dream
[Chorus 2]
Sitting targets in the car
I've been thinking it over
It's not so far, not so far
Not too far to drive
In the car...
[Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Break]
[Verse 3]
We can talk about it in the car
Surely we can talk about it some other time
Oh, keep your eyes on the road up ahead –
I don't seem to be able to use mine
And I'm losing control of my body
And I'm running scared...
Oh, we're left with a black-and-white movie
A positional state of affairs
An obsessional interest in moving
Just to prove that we're there
[Chorus 3]
Sitting targets in the car
I'll be thinking about it
It's not to far to drive
Sitting targets in the car
I've been thinking it over
It's not too far, not too far
Not so far to drive
[Spoken Outro]
Thank you
The next one is actually the title song on the newest album, this is Sitting Targets
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
We can talk about it in the car;
We can talk about it with the drive
Keep your eyes on the road up ahead
Don't forget what we said about staying alive
And na, na, na, na, na, na, a few hours more
I'd have cracked up, I'd say
Oh, you never can tell when it's coming;
It's so hard getting out of the way;
But to be sitting targets is surely
No better than running away...
[Chorus 1]
Sitting targets in the car
I'll be thinking about it –
It's not so far, not so far
Not too far to drive
[Verse 2]
Ooh, this time we madе our getaway
We'd been stalling for too long
Keep your eyеs on the road up ahead
While I try to forget what's been going wrong
Yeah, you'd better check up on the CB
See what Tail-End Charlie say:
Oh, you never can tell how it's going
Oh, you never can really say how it's been
But to stay sitting targets is surely
No better than living a dream
[Chorus 2]
Sitting targets in the car
I've been thinking it over
It's not so far, not so far
Not too far to drive
In the car...
[Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Break]
[Verse 3]
We can talk about it in the car
Surely we can talk about it some other time
Oh, keep your eyes on the road up ahead –
I don't seem to be able to use mine
And I'm losing control of my body
And I'm running scared...
Oh, we're left with a black-and-white movie
A positional state of affairs
An obsessional interest in moving
Just to prove that we're there
[Chorus 3]
Sitting targets in the car
I'll be thinking about it
It's not to far to drive
Sitting targets in the car
I've been thinking it over
It's not too far, not too far
Not so far to drive
[Spoken Outro]
Thank you