Driving Away
Marie had written the music, but didn’t have any lyrics. I loved the music, so I decided to give it a go and try and write some lyrics. I had never written a song before, so with a great deal of help from Marie, I decided to give it a go…
After listening to the music a few times, it began to reminded me of a particularly sad time in my life. When I was about 20, a girlfriend of mine was being treated for leukemia. Unfortunately, with all the various drugs she had to take for her treatment, her kidneys had also failed.
I was visiting her in Hospital, on the outskirts of London. The doctors were hoping that flushing her kidneys through (with lots of fluids), her kidneys would begin to work, but it wasn’t working…
When it came time for me to leave, I had a two hundred and forty mile trip to go back to work. I sat in the car, started the engine and turned on the radio…
Mark
The song is in draft format, unfinished. One day…
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