Travis, Driftwood

Eind jaren '90 heeft de Schotse band Travis een paar hits hier in Nederland gehad. Vooral van het album The man who (1999) zijn een paar nummers heel bekend geworden. Why does it always rain on me is denk ik de grootste hit geworden.
Een van de mooiste nummers van Travis vind ik nog altijd Driftwood. De tekst is prachtig en poetisch en de melodie blijft (bij mij tenminste) nog lang in je hoofd zitten.
De clip is wat vreemd, maar heeft ook wel iets heel ouderwets leuks.
Luister en geniet.

Travis, Driftwood
Everything is open
Nothing is set in stone
Rivers turn to ocean
Oceans tide you home
Home is where the heart is
But your heart had to roam
Drifting over bridges
Never to return
Watching bridges burn

{chorus}
You’re driftwood floating underwater
Breaking into pieces pieces pieces
Just driftwood hollow and of no use
Waterfalls will find you bind you grind you

Nobody is an island
Everyone has to go
Pillars turn to butter
Butterflying low
Low is where your heart is
But your heart has to grow
Drifting under bridges
Never with the flow

And you really didn’t think it would happen
But it really is the end of the line
So I’m sorry that you turned to driftwood
But you’ve been drifting for a long long time

Everywhere there’s trouble
Nowhere’s safe to go
Pushes turn to shovel’s
Shovelling the snow
Frozen you have chosen
The path you wish to go
Drifting now forever
And forever more
Until you reach your shore

(chorus)
You’re driftwood floating underwater
Breaking into pieces pieces pieces
Just driftwood hollow and of no use
Waterfalls will find you bind you grind you

And you really didn’t think it would happen
But it really is the end of the line
So I’m sorry that you turned to driftwood
But you’ve been drifting for a long long time
You’ve been drifting for a long long time
You’ve been drifting for a long long
Drifting for a long long time