R.E.M. - Driver 8 (With Lyrics)

From the 1988 compilation album Eponymous.

The walls are built up, stone by stone,
the fields divided one by one.
And the train conductor says
"Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break
We've been on this shift too long"

And the train conductor says
"Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"

I saw a treehouse on the outskirts of the farm.
The power lines have floaters so the airplanes won't get snagged.
Bells are ringing through the town again,
Children look up, all they hear is sky-blue, bells ringing

And the train conductor says
"Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"

Way to shield the hated heat.
Way to put myself to sleep.
Way to shield the hated heat.
Way to put myself, my children to sleep.

He piloted this song in a plane like that one.
She is selling faith on the Go Tell crusade.
Locomotive 8, Southern Crescent, hear the bells ring again.
Field to weed is lookin' thin

And the train conductor says
"Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break
We've been on this shift too long."
And the train conductor says
"Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"

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Music

Tags:

• trains
• journeys
• children
• vacations
• driving

[ralphcraddock]

hey whats all this federation of the rotary club nonsense ? aliens spaliens daliens back in vogue or something.?

its the music ,thats all !!

[Circumpunk]

@ralphcraddock Thanks ralph, I don't know how in hell he got there. High wierdness I suspect.

[stevepwood]

Ah, the Classic early R.E.M. They haven't done much since selling their souls to Warner Bros. Still better than most of the crap out today, but nothing as good as this!

[visionfirst1970]

No matter what,, this music will be ringing for many moons

[lyonslaforet]

Even if Fables Of The Reconstruction (1985) is a little flat album, R.E.M. could still rock! Proof with this gem!

[rickreed123]

Way to shield the hated heat.

[legandrydirk]

@Circumpunk Fair enough but they also have a interest in nuclear weapons.Plenty off sightings have been over military bases.I dont think they want us humans to destroy our selfs.CHEERIO then

[Circumpunk]

@legandrydirk I think I've had enough of this conversation thanks.

[legandrydirk]

@Circumpunk Cos there will be a federation,and they will be keeping the evil ones at bay.Who would do that to humanity.Some say that Hitler had a pact with the grays.And this is why there on earth.As they got asked bye Hitler,and they gave him the lie he would win the war.And they got to use the slaves,to test out reproduction with to make a clone.I know it all sounds a bit X Philes,but sometimes the truth can be stranger than fiction.I like the idea,that we are protected at least from above.

[Circumpunk]

@legandrydirk I don't doubt the possibility of extra terrestrial life. I would be a fool to count out the mathematical possibility. I also have firm religious beliefs. I just don't think we are being manipulated by aliens in the way these reptillian believers suggest. I mean, if they are smart enough to get here why not just take over entirely centuries ago and put us all in the salt mines together without humanoid representation? Who needs democracy when you have phasers? ; ))

[legandrydirk]

@Circumpunk I believe in extra terrstials and have saw UFO,s.I am near a hot spot in Scotland,not the famous Bonnybridge.But one on the Ayrshire coast a lot.So there is defo something up there.I keep a open mind,and dont believe we would be the only beings that a supreme being or a God would create.Ever watch the show about this subject on the history channel?I got the DVD,s about it.And it was really interesting,they tried to de bunk it all with science.And were down in Redlesham forrest

[Circumpunk]

@legandrydirk I don't know why anyone thinks that the Royals are aliens. I've read the material about it but don't see any science in the science fiction. That is to say some people lie. I think the shape-shifter crowd are liars, looking to profit from gossip.