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If you get paid to be a driver then you drive
You're only following your orders
Not taking any sides
You get your trailer to the compound
And you keep your load alive
If you get paid to be a driver then you drive
Nobodys perfect, we all do the best we can
And I make no claim to be a hero or an educated man
But there are complicated factors that you don't understand
Like i can barely meet the mortgage with the money in my hand
Nobodys perfect but I do the best I can
Which means if they say k**; I'll k**
And if they say rob; I'll rob
And if you ask why then I'll reply,
I am only doing my job
So I climb up into the cabin and I drive
I'm not embara**ed to be working, I'm glad to be alive,
No it's not where my spirit's living but it is how I survive
Me and all the men I work with
We've got families and wives
We've got no time
We're no inclined
To think of all those other lives
That are gonna suffer when this load arrives
Because if they say k**; I'll k**
And if they say rob; I'll rob
And if you ask why then I'll reply,
I am only doing my job
Wish I had time to stand and criticise like you
On a wednesday morning in the winter I'd have better things to do
Than hurling insults at a driver,
Maybe you should look at you
You think you're such a f**ing hero
Well you're wearing leather shoes
And it's my taxes pay your giros that allow you to abuse
People like me just so that you can see your faces on the news
Wish I did not feel so defensive but I do...
Because if they say k**; I'll k**
And if they say rob; I'll rob
And if you ask why then I'll reply,
I am only doing my job
No I don't deny your right to hold a point of view
And I'll be the first one to agree that there are changes overdue
But don't you see, it isn't me, that you should do your talking to
Somebody somewhere has the power, but nobody knows who
Even investors and inventors only got a job to do
Like adexecs and their excuses for the effluent they spew
And reporters who report it though they know it isnt true
And the policemen who support it when they wave the convoy though
And the ones who lay the tarmac and the captain and the crew
And the girl who faxes the order and the ones who join the queue
To spend their wages on the cages they have grown addicted to
And all the millions who milk it like they never had a clue
That therewere tortererers and traitors living lives who never knew
Their mothers tenderness and all the joys of life that life is due
It's kinda scary when you think the whole thing through,
Somebody somewhere ought to hold a full review
Tell them if they say k**; I'll k**
And if they say rob; I'll rob
And if you ask why then I'll reply,
Hey I'm only doing my job
So I'm just heading for the compound with my load
I saw the policemen and the people and the peoples faces showed
That they did not intend to let me throgh to get my cargo stowed
That was when this woman ran out in the road
Thats when the whole world turned on me
Thats when they upped the price of veal
And when they asked me why then I replied
I'm just a driver this was someone else's deal.
I'm gonna lose these yellow coveralls I wear
I'll take a shower let the water wash the whole thing from my hair,
Tell the kids it was an accident,
My wife it isn't fair,
She had a child she's a mother
She had no business being there.
She just came at me from the pavement as if she didn't care
Though I know that it was love not money made her brave enough to dare
To let her consciounce give the orders that she just had to stop me there
Like I was diving kids to auschwitz or a tank through tiannamen square
And I just don't know where I can go now with this load I have to bear
Cos theres a puncture underneath me I don't know how to repair,
It's gonna stay with me forever now i swear.
And in my dreams I'll see her still.
And those are my hands on the wheel.
But when she askes why, there's no reply