With all your vice and volume the whole of last week   The plastic pretenders to paradise speak   Of your fictions of triumph and legends of pain   The sense that you'd left you'd be back once again   There's a glint in your eyes and the sky starts to laugh   It's two to one you never did things by half   And I'm out on the rooftops yelling your name   Cos without you this town will be too much the same      You went driving in the rain   I'll never see you again   There's nothing in the air left to compare   To all of your passion and genius pain   You went driving in the rain   I'll never see you again         There was talk of an illness that came by surprise   The papers did penance, the whole town took sides   Oh, but it was your dancing and mischeivous mind   And then we were shot of you, but no-one's that blind   And there's flowers have bloomed down the side of your street   Where you and your demons did openly meet   And I hope it's wide open where you've got to   There's closed minds in this town that couldn't accept you         (chorus)         They're making excuses, the reasons the facts   They're reasoning how long you'll take to come back   But there's guilt in their prayers, maybe shame in their pride   They know it was no fault of yours down inside   They steps can't be retraced cos tracks disappear   And there'd be no welcome for you back here   Because you were the worst side of everyone's soul   They had to get rid or face up to the cold         (chorus)