Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Silver Wheels, artist - Bruce Cockburn. Album song In The Falling Dark, in the genre
Date of issue: 31.08.1976
Record label: High Romance, True North
Song language: English
Silver Wheels |
High speed drift on a prairie road |
Hot tires sing like a string being bowed |
Sudden town rears up then explodes |
Fragments resolve into white line code |
Whirl on silver wheels |
Black earth energy receptor fields |
Undulate under a grey cloud shield |
We outrun a river colour brick red mud |
That cleaves apart hills soil rich as blood |
Highway squeeze in construction steam |
Stop caution hard hat yellow insect machines |
Silver steel towers stalk rolling land |
Toward distant stacks that shout «Feed on demand» |
100 miles later the sky has changed |
Urban anticipation -- we get 4 lanes |
Red orange furnace sphere notches down |
Throws up silhouette skyline in brown |
Sundogs flare on windshield glass |
Sudden swoop skyward iron horse overpass |
Pass a man walking like the man in the moon |
Walking like his head’s full of irish fiddle tunes |
The skin around every city looks the same |
Miles of flat neon spelling well-known names |
USED TRUCKS DIRTY DONUTS YOU YOU’RE THE ONE |
Fat wheeled cars squeal into the sun |
Radio speakers gargle top 40 trash |
Muzak soundtrack to slow collapse |
Planet engines pulsate in sidereal time |
If you listen close you can hear the whine |