The Whole World Is Tail-gatin' Me
(S. Walker)

The whole world is tail-gatin' me
And no matter how long or hard I drive I can't get free
They're sittin' on my axle
With their lights on high beam
The whole world is tail-gatin' me

Started when I was a boy
Before I got my first truck toy
My ma and pa done told me do my chores and don't annoy ... them

It was then I started wishin'
As I did them dirty dishes
That the whole world would stop tail-gatin' me

Hit the road as a young man
Got a mortgage, wife and pram
Started drivin' round the clock just to pay the taxman

But them bills they kept a comin'
So I kept my rig a hummin'
Wishin' the whole world would stop tailgatin' me

Ain't gonna change much when I die
At that weighbridge in the sky
There'll be tolls to pay on judgement day for sins I can't deny

And those purgatory taxes
That I'll owe will be for lapses
On that highway where the world tailgated me.

© - copyright 1996, Simon Walker. All rights reserved.

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