"Driving South" as written by and John Squire....
Driving south 'round midnight, man, I must have been insane
Driving south 'round midnight in a howling hurricane
I stopped for an old man hitcher at a lonely old crossroad
He said "I'm going nowhere
I'm only here to see if I can steal your soul"
"I'm not trying to make you, I don't want to touch your skin
I know all there is to know about you and all your sins
Well, you ain't too young or pretty, and yer sure as hell can't sing
Any time you want to sell your soul
I've got a toll-free number you can ring"
Yeah, that's what I thought he said anyway
"I'm not trying to make you, I don't want to touch your skin
I know all there is to know about you and all your sins
Well, you ain't too young or pretty, and yer sure as hell can't sing
Any time you want to sell your soul
I've got a toll-free number you can ring"
0 800 treble six, oh yeah
0 800 treble six, oh yeah
I stopped for an old man hitcher at a lonely old crossroads
He said "I'm going nowhere
I'm only here to see if I can steal your soul"
He got!
Driving south 'round midnight in a howling hurricane
I stopped for an old man hitcher at a lonely old crossroad
He said "I'm going nowhere
I'm only here to see if I can steal your soul"
"I'm not trying to make you, I don't want to touch your skin
I know all there is to know about you and all your sins
Well, you ain't too young or pretty, and yer sure as hell can't sing
Any time you want to sell your soul
I've got a toll-free number you can ring"
Yeah, that's what I thought he said anyway
"I'm not trying to make you, I don't want to touch your skin
I know all there is to know about you and all your sins
Well, you ain't too young or pretty, and yer sure as hell can't sing
Any time you want to sell your soul
I've got a toll-free number you can ring"
0 800 treble six, oh yeah
0 800 treble six, oh yeah
I stopped for an old man hitcher at a lonely old crossroads
He said "I'm going nowhere
I'm only here to see if I can steal your soul"
He got!
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Except UK based, south of Manchester, perhaps at Alderley Edge or Crewe. Come to think of it, the devil is more likely to be in Crewe.
The Stone Roses just make it work, if only all of "The Second Coming" had as much swagger and confidence as this one.
I've always felt Squire was talking about himself as being not too pretty and sure as hell can't sing.
I wish the mix was better, that Mani and Reni were higher in the mix. As it is, its all guitar and you can't make out the bass line at all and I suspect the drums is a loop of Reni, not Reni playing for real. Listen to it again and focus on the drums. There is no human emotion in them, no variation, they just repeat perfectly like a metronome.
"you ain't too young or pretty and you sure as hell can't sing"
Always considered IB to be a frontman humble enough to be aware of his limitations.