Sitting Targets Songtext
von Peter Hammill

We can talk about it in the car
We can talk about it with the drive
Keep your eyes on the road up ahead
Don′t forget what we said about staying alive
If we'd been stuck just a few hours more
I′d have cracked up, I'd say
No, you never can tell when it's coming
It′s so hard getting out of the way
To be sitting targets is surely no better than running away

Sitting targets in the car
I′ve been thinking about it
Not so far, not so far, not so far to drive
Not so far to drive


Ooh, this time we made our getaway
We've been stalling for too long
Keep your eyes on the road up ahead
While I try to forget what′s been going wrong
What's been going wrong
Oh, you′d better check our mark to see me
See what Dale and Johnny say
Oh, you never can tell how it's going
No, you never can see how it′s been
But to stay sitting targets is surely no better than living the dream

Sitting targets in the car
I've been thinking it over, it's
Not so far to, not so far to, not so far to drive
In the car

We can talk about it in the car
Surely we can talk about it some other time
Oh, keep your eyes on the road up ahead
I don′t seem to be able to use mine
And I′m losing control of my body
And I'm running scared
Oh, we′re left with a black and white movie
A positional state of affairs
An obsessional interest in moving just a further way there

Sitting targets in the car
I've been thinking about it
Not so far to drive
Sitting targets in the car
I′ve been thinking it over, it's
Not so far, not so far, not too far to drive