The World in 1984 - Shearwater

«When our column advanced

And we saw what we have done

We were sure that we could never tell

The folks back home,»

Said my father to me

I had just turned sixteen

And we were walking from my school

To his apartment alone

And he said

«You'd think the world you are in would always remain

But some worlds can just disappear

Some worlds you enter just for seconds at a time

And some last until you are forgiven.»

When my mother and me take the drive into town

I can’t tell if she’s lost in thought or lost where we are

She turns the radio to 92 Star

Where Ronnie Milsap sings what he would not have missed it for

And she says

«What do you think you’re gonna do with your life?»

And I say

«You've got to teach me to drive»

She just laughs at that

And musses my hair and says

«Kid you are lucky to be alive.»