She thinks of salt and the sea
As if they could be the source of her sweat and tears, like blood to wine,
And the sweaty ocean breeze
Could melt the limits of what comes from the outside and what blows inside (her shirt)
And while the enemy sleeps, she plans to get as far as she can from that sparkling coast
Because the bad days come with the waves that keep crashing hard against the sand
to make it sing like one deaf mermaid
And as she packs her way to escape from the plans that she once dared to plan
Her eyes roll deep into the void of hours of sleep
To let tomorrow come
She steers the steering wheel
Driving past tens of thousands of flashy orange traffic cones
That slash the night like a tear
And leads her to the house that she never really felt like home
Because the bad days, hell, they keep spinning like letters in a hurricane
in a deadly dance outside her window
And as she packs her day with the strains of this lingering lowering
Her eyes fall deep into the void of her own self
Until tomorrow comes
And all these bad days, they always creep in like voices from the afterworld
to yell her things she does not know yet
That leave her drained and bewildered, spat out like a river by a desert road
Or a page filled with uninspired imagery
Until tomorrow comes
And the day is done
So it makes not sense at all
To keep hiding from the sun
Like a loaded gun
To save things she can’t recall

Driving Music - Orange Traffic Cones

If I meet you with one laugh to remember and a praise to regret
will you confide in the still of the night to reflect your sparks, on and on?
As our days go astray, with the rip of the hours and the scent of the sun,
Will we survive the distractions of pride just to keep moving along?
And as the silky shore greets your outstandingly light steps and my lavender suit,
we close our eyes and mourn the passing of time
and the candles that melted in vain for the slow death of another day

Driving Music - Lavender Suit

Stuck in a place I’d long to remember
Back in the day when we still knew how to be afraid
and we were so alive! Now this gentle heat has absorbed us
And sucked out the fuel that kept us going from place to place
Can we still fight for something
That’s gotten all wronged? They got it all wrong
We got lost in the moment
And now we’re starting it all over again
Questing for words that scream through the jail bars
and meanings that might be breathing under the debris
There is no melody we can still amuse and destroy for
All of the reasons we are fatally alone
Can we still fight for something
That’s gotten all wronged? We got it all wrong
We lost track of the moment
Now it’s gone… we’re starting it all over again
Ooh, mistakes could echo forever
Without ever getting back in place
Oh, can we still fight for anything
Without starting it all over again?
So we give up on ourselves again
and keep hanging loose on a broken string that was never strummed

Driving Music - Aphasic Singalong

Cheer up, my darling
Haven’t you heard things won’t be ok?
It’s been a mess right from the start
Stretch for the sunrise
Crumble the bones of your snowy feet
And let those stiff joints melt apart
Like these tragic times
Turn our words into water
We’re watching the wind
Watching the wind as it blows
Just watching the wind
Watching the wind as it blows
Out your second thoughts
To make room for whatever we…
Lay down, my darling
Hear the dirt whisper in your ear
How there’s no way out of this
So nest all your could’ve-been’s
As your ghost spins around itself
Ringing doorbells down the street
And once things settle down
We can be how we’ve always been
Watching the wind
Watching the wind as it blows
Just watching the wind
Watching the wind as it blows
Up our paradigms
And we can once again go back to
watching the wind, watching the wind as it blows.

Driving Music - Watching the Wind

Hate me for the time that I’ve been wasting
Push me for the loss that I’ve been faking
Love me for a while just to keep things moving
If you’re settled with settling down
You’re settled with settling down
Fold your eyes when you are dying to see it
Kiss out the loud breath of all the sleepy people
Hate me for a while just to see how it feels
If you’re settled with settling down
You’re settled with settling down
When you’re settled with settling down
You’re settled with settling	down
You’re settled with
Losing your voice
Without a word
That can get you past the sunrise
Through the night
Where things are going to be going
Like a highway
That you wish could get you nowhere
So the asphalt and the wind could hold you
If you’re settled with settling down
You’re settled with settling down
Then settle down.

Driving Music - Settle

One fine day, looking for the time to wait for a finer day
All these years we’ve felt these four walls closing in on what we should’ve been
And now we’re back home from war again
Carrying all that we didn’t say
And this draining, remaining chance
To eternally begin
Another day gone with the need to rephrase everything the whole saturday
Say it’s done, and leave our books out in the sun to give the words some air
And now’re back on the road again
With all that we’ve failed to understand
And this haunting, remaining strength
To eternally begin
It’s one fine day when we save each other from ourselves and begin again
And now we’re back home from war again
Carrying all that we didn’t say
And this draining, remaining chance
To eternally begin
Going back home from war again
With all that we’ve failed to understand
And this hurting, remaining strength
To eternally begin

Driving Music - Saturday

Lost in awe of awe itself and the atmosphere
And this freezing rain that awes me not to get out of here
So I sit and fake that these thoughts I shake melt and disappear
Meanwhile I keep waiting for you
Sidewalks glazed by the slippery hours of the afternoon
The wait derails what I’ve been meaning to say to you
And as strangers stray in their daily grace I’m beginning to
Believe you’ll show me the way back home
It’s all I can say I have known
Through the beat of the rain and the grey blur of the sky
You can show me the way back home
So leave on the lights and brush the mud right off your teeth
‘Cause words go out to die, but they crawl back when we sleep
And if I get myself through the night back on my feet
I’ll be down and out, waiting here, waiting here
With this rouse that stains like my fingerprints on your windowsill
So you can show me the way back home
It’s all I can say I have known
Through the beat of the rain and this rhythm that I have gotten wrong
You can show me the way back home
Back home
Back home.

Driving Music - Way Back Home

The urgency of every passing wink
Flashes like a miracle
Inflated with these tedious memories
The present flies away
You say you feel like I’m the holder of
the dying art of remembering
But no matter what we do
You know we’re bound to be
Strangers in a while, until I see you once again
Strangers in a while, and meet for the first time once again
I keep shelter in the years
And see you shake’em like a tambourine
And make this growing intimacy
reason to start again
with all that we should laugh about but
seem to take so seriously
and the certainty that we
will soon regret to be
Strangers in a while, until you wake me up again
Strangers in a while, and meet for the first time once again
(Sing)
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Pa-pa-ra-pa-pa-ra-ra-pa-pa-ra-pa-pa-ra-ra-pa-pa-ra-pa-pa-ra-ra-ra
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All that urgency
Leads us to believe
Every day is like
The day we first met
All that intimacy
Raising through the years
This sinking feeling
That we’ve just first met

Driving Music - Strangers in a While

The light refracts in the freezing trace that follows as you walk away
Leaving behind the things you can’t forget
You take the time to make your parting memorable by its restraint
And hold the sudden cracking of regret
Here, and back,
With all the trash we’ve left out to rust and preserve as past
We, again, reach an end that always seems closer
And further again, just to keep us wondering
What went so wrong to leave you this unimpressed?
In little time, we cover up the traces of the tragic day
When we heard certain things were meant to be
And so they are, so we can skip the parts where we are not afraid
To feel it all slide out so easily
Now here we stand
With all the trash we’ve kept in our closets as history
Of the days that I could spend just catering to you
And fishing for things you’d never find funny
The effort it takes to leave you so unimpressed

Driving Music - Unimpressed

We spend the whole week counting silver cars
And scratching bruises that would soon be scars
We share a song I’ll never get to hear
And the place that I once forgot to forgive
The seasons never seem to change ’round here
You say they’re waiting for us to begin
And live the plans we’ve set ourselves to be
To sit here side by side for one more year
If there is no one to walk you home from class
I will follow you but quickly lose my breath
And as we feel our youth dissolve into the air
We shut our eyes and anticipate the day
When we’ll be good enough to leave this place
So meet me with a bottle of cheap beer
It tastes like dirt but so do you and me
And we will list the things we’ll never miss
The ones that have been carved out of this street
The silence that we can no longer hear

Driving Music - Skatepark

He sees her shining down the street like a new morning
And smiles "hello there" for the second time today
There are days he does not see her
And those are days that go to waste
It's not that he's in love, he's just a man of rituals

So he keeps track of the rising price of August
As he chews the words he's never going to say
'cause he'd make them sound as hollow
As a revoked holiday
He's been trying not to see her
So he can see her again

So long, sometimes
Bygone goodbyes
are meant in silence

'though he's gotten used to seeing her
Every morning, every day
He's been trying not to see her
So she can see him again
He's been dying for not seeing her
Dying to see her again
He's been trying not to see her
So he can see her again

01. The Day

Sometimes we throw it all away… if I could hear you say: 
“I’d die with one more sunny day”
I’d wait, in my own silent way… and hope you’d understand I know
exactly what you meant

Looking back, another time
Remembering all we’ve left behind
All those days still breathe perfection
And in every page or memory I find you there

Sometimes there’s no word left we can say, so we just sit and
pray for it all to make sense again
I wait, in my own charmless way, and do the best I can to make
the sun feel good again

Bringing back, another time,
The light that adds reason to our lives
It feels so good to breathe perfectiong
And to know that in all my future dreams, you’ll still be there

Outside it’s such a beautiful day… don’t waste it all away
‘cause this one’s never coming back

04. A Plastic Sea

Originally writen and recorded by New Order, on their 1985 album "Low-life". This Driving Music take on the song was released as a b-side of the web-only single "The Day" - www.neworderonline.com / www.driving-music.net

Love Vigilantes (New Order)

Driving Music is an indie-folk collective from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

Singer-songwriter Fábio Andrade first used the name Driving Music in 2007, shortly after disbanding his former punk rock band, The Invisibles. After a couple one-man home demos, Driving Music released their debut ep in March 2010. It features five original song and a cover of The National’s “Apartment Story”, and was recorded, mixed and mastered by Fábio Andrade at home, featuring contributions of fellow musicians Raphael Erichsen and Daniel Develly.

Since then, Driving Music have released a couple singles featuring unreleased b-sides and early demos of the songs that comprise their first ep. The recordings keep the original homely approach while also relying on other musicians and artists for special appearances and collaborations. Every song the band has ever released can be downloaded for free at www.driving-music.net

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