NoMeansNo - The World Wasn't Built In A Day Lyrics
As I was driving around aimlessly, a waking dream occurred to meThat everyone I knew had died that dayThat my friends, co-workers and loved ones, had all just suddenly passed awayWell, there were drunken car crashes, airline disasters, and suicides that were unexplainedAnd as I drove past familiar scenes, streets and buildings that were a hundred times seenAs a wave of contentment washed over me, I wondered what this could possibly meanAs the sun spilled its warmth over the houses and treesI felt that I was finally freeBut you know what they sayThe world wasn't built in a dayYou know what they sayThe world wasn't built in a day (no way)I picked up a woman in the parking lot of the local SafewayWell, I had seen her face a hundred times but I never knew her nameAnd as I drove her home she laughed and she sighed and the strain of the moment passed awayI explained how my father had died, how I had seen his body and never criedShe let her hand fall on my leg and there she let it strayWhen I dropped her off she asked me up, I politely said I couldn't stayAnd as she walked to the door, as those bags of groceries gently swayedI turned the wheel and muttered to myself,
