Kids out driving
Saturday afternoon
Just pass me by
I'm just savoring familiar sights
Familiar sights
We share some history
This town and I, and I can't stop
that long forgotten feeling of hers
Time to book a room and
stay
Tonight, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, one's to find some friends
to say you're doing well
Af ter all this time,
you look just the same
Num ber two is the happy hour
at one of two hotels
Settling to play,
do you remember so -and -so?
Number three is never
say her name
Never say her name
The flame tree is a blind
weary driver
And there's nothing else
could set fire to this town
Nothing else could set fire
There's no change,
there's no place
Everything within its place
Just makes it harder to believe
She won't be around
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
that sentimental bullshit anyway
Takes more than just a memory
to make me cry
I'm happy just to sit here
at a table with my old friends
We'll see which one of us
will tell the biggest lie
And there's a girl, she's fallen in love
Near where the pianola stands
With our young local factory out of work girls,
they're just holding hands
And I'm wondering if he'll
go or if he'll stay
Do you re member?
Nothing stopped us
on the field in our day
Oh, the flame trees will
blind the weary driver
An d there's nothing else
could set fire to this town
There's no change,
there's no pace
Everything within its place
Just makes it harder to believe
That she won't be around
It takes more, it takes more,
than the memory that was you
You're my soul
You're my soul
Oh, the flame trees will
blind the weary driver