I don't want a car
I don't want to write a book
I don't want to meet the pope
I don't want to stay silent
I don't want to go
on Saturdays to Ikea and Jumbo
I don't want to raise
the flag to the pole on flag days
Come evening shimmer and the dark
Come soon and repeat my name when
I want to go where gangs scream
jump and roar until the rivers change directions
let me drown in rock'n'roll
the song coaches his singer
knows how I feel in the small hours
I don't want to run
faster than anyone else
I don't want to think
whether I'm 60 or 62 kilos heavy
I don't want to know
how to become intact
or how to knit socks
and bake really good pullaa (buns)
Come evening shimmer and the dark
Come soon and repeat my name when
I want to go where gangs scream
jump and roar until the rivers change directions
let me drown in rock'n'roll
the song coaches his singer
knows how I feel in the small hours
*Repeat chorus x2*