Ordinary weekend lyrics

Artist  : John wesley harding 
Song : Ordinary weekend
 
I lost my job on friday, I went drinking to
forget
My luck it had been down so long but I could
change it yet
Sat down and strted talking with some guy sitting
there
He bought me drinks all afternoon until I didn’t
care
He said was I in need of work, some money could
be found
I said "is it above the law? " he said
"it’s underground"
I said "i need the paycheck now, I got debts
here and there"
He smiled and asked if I could drive and I said
"anywhere"
Anywhere...

In this weekend of ordinary dreams
Everything was not just as it seems
Take a look around at the faces in the crowd
And you’ll see wehre I’ve been


We met up on the saturday, I thought it was us
two
But I had not asked quetions not knowing what to
do
Twelve of them were in the van, thirteen
including me
Twelve pairs of eyes were staring back at me,
suspiciously
And so I just sat down and drove, took them to
some track
And drove past the security guard while they hid
in the back
They made me stop, and got out there, and I heard
a couple of shots
I hoped they were in self-defense but I knew that
they were not
They were not...


Not in this weekend of ordinary dreams...


I drummed my fingers on the wheel and waited for
the boys
Had a smoke, I had a few, I got very paranoid
And still they hadn’t come back there, so I just
drove away
Deciding to play safe and get my share another
day


On sunday, he came round my place, I asked him
where they’d been
He said they’d left another way and only I was
seen
He said that we should cash the van and did I
want my share
I didn’t like the way they’d left but by now I
didn’t care
Didn’t care...


Didn’t care for this weekend of ordinary
dreams...


He drove me to a back room with a single swinging
light
Someone said "the fish are starving, ain’t
it time they had a bite"
And I felt sick and stupid and damned my own
brown hair
Forgetting that the price you pay must far exceed
the share
Someone pulled a knife out and they stabbed me in
the back
They tied my hands and bound my feet and threw me
in a sack
They took me to a lakeside and they threw my body
in
I could hear them laughing, they said you can
sink or swim
Sink or swim...


So hear you desperate women and hear you
desperate men
Don’t take your life for granted
Don’t live your life in vain
But if you think that you can cahnge it,
Hope you know you an’t go back
Just go down to the lakeside
Watch me floating in a sack,
In this sack.