Here I am when traffic slowly flows
(Where the needle touched down)
Carbon planes draw a cage round the air force base
(Where the needle touched down)
My foot on the brake it's ok to fly low
Over poor Spana way
An eagle swooped down from a semi-trailer
Took the name of your town from a shark-toothed freighter
The needle's the same that re corded and played
When you left me at the greyhound the year I moved away
And if I knew then what's so obvious now
You'd still be here baby
My baby , baby
So that's why I never come back here
That's why they spit out my name
Your ex's have clawed up the bible
Trying to keep me a way
With the sledge of tectonic fever
The needle has landed a gain
Let it plaaaa y
And the needle touched dooooow n
The needle is landing
And the needle touched dooooow n
The needle is landing
An eagle swooped down from a semi-trailer
Took the name of your town from a shark-toothed freighter
And if I knew then what's so obvious now
You'd still be here baby
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