Bad Driver
Half-serious, half-humorous, this song contains the one accusation no-one wants to hear. In concert, Leon would draw attention to the difficulty he had in finding suitable rhymes for "driver", raising laughs over "Lady Godiva" and "sell my soul for a fiver". Behind the jokes lies a rather sombre tale in which the man behind the wheel loses his senses and ends up meeting his death in a motorway crash.
"At last I've written a song guaranteed to offend no-one for who in the world will ever admit to being a bad driver?" - LR (sleevenotes to Harry's Gone Fishing, 1999)
"'Bad Driver' is a song made out of a small grain of an idea which works (if it does) because of the humour, the technical control and the recognisable truth of its observations." - (Turning Silence Into Song (songbook), p45)
"'Bad Driver' is a song made out of a small grain of an idea which works (if it does) because of the humour, the technical control and the recognisable truth of its observations." - (Turning Silence Into Song (songbook), p45)