Rainbirds - With A Smile lyrics

This is a tired old world I want

News from elsewhere

Good news

Bad news

On picture-postcards

This is a blind spot

This is an empty lot

I need a radio

I need a hilltop

I want my news from elsewhere

It is a mighty long way from

Here to elsewhere

Uphill

Downhill

Wish I had a

Fourwheel-drive

Wish I was a contender

But you are never standing

By the roadside

You are never waving at me

I would be rather happy here

If I could tell you where I will be

Passing by

With a smile

t` Is a funny idea that I should

Be from somewhere

Isn`t it obvious

That I have never

Never ever been there

I`m on the look-out

I don`t belong here

It would be wonderfull

If I was wrong

I would be rather happy here

If I could tell you where I will be

Passing by

With a smile

In the wooden shed

He found a piece of cardboard

On which the previous

Occupant had written:

“How can I please myself

When I have no self to please? “

Sorry, young man³ -thought Burroughs-

“I think you are kidding yourself.

As long as you talk to yourself,

You have a self.

The self is a pimping,

Blackmailing chauffeur

Who gets you from here to

There on word lines.

I would be rather happy here

If I could tell you where I will be

Passing by

With a smile

With a smile

Yeah!