History Of Rock And Roll

(Colin Vearncombe)

Showered with offers at twenty-one

By the age of twenty-two

She is nearly long gone

They keep calling her the heir

To the rock and roll crown

Now the weights so heavy

It was dragging her down

Wants it till she?s got it

Then tries to run away

A hunger so deep

It can never go away

No way to fill in

To turn down the dial

Below the limit

If she could only stop

From crying

She say?s I love him

He?s that kind to be clever

When I ready

Make it soon make it better

She?s wanted him for so long

She?s forgotten how it goes

This is the history of rock and roll

All fucked-up

Can?t even see to write

A forty-four magnum

On the passenger side

Popes a tablet for the cramping

But just wont fade

She starts hearing things she used to say

To love you is to surrender

It?s the need to loss

To what to step inside

A kind of raging feud

Between the see and the sky

My head and my heart

And choosing which of them is blowing me apart

He says I want her

Want her so much I can taste her

When I?m sleeping

She the scale of the ether

How much is it worth

If it free I just don?t know

This is the history of rock and roll

Haunted by images

The planets turning

The sun going down

On Mississippi burning

Only darkness has the power

To make her open up her heart

Played it to a world as though their only tears for crying

We want the future

Maybe soon maybe never

When we?re ready

And we act like we hate it

How much is it worth

If it free we?ll never don?t know

This is the history of rock and roll