Thankyou (for Loving Me At My Worst) Lyrics - Whitlams

I shouldn't have driven 

You shouldn't have driven - but we got there 

Had a good time, so we left the car 

And the cabby was from a war-zone 

We were glad he was driving us home 

I was gladder of some movement 

You took it on, you took it on board 

I said "Thank you, thank you, for loving me at my worst" 

If this isn't love it's very close 

Can you hear the world is waking up? 

Can we be crazy for a few more years? 

Have I got them in me? 

Bought myself one of those keyboard axes 

Wanted to get out and dance away from the piano 

That could have been the beginning of the end 

If I wasn't already in the middle 

The crowd was confused - and then they cheered 

My career it was back on track 

I was relieved, full of love for the people 

I said "Thank you, each and every one of you, 

For loving me at my worst" 

If this isn't love it's very close 

Can you hear the world is waking up? 

Can we be crazy for a few more years? 

Have I got them in me? 

All you bright and middle-aged things 

Attending your sons and daughters 

Spare a thought for me out here with the kids 

To hell with your bricks and mortar 

It's you and me and the Holy Ghost 

On the road to dawn heading down the coast 

We're better sorry than safe when you count the cost 

Mmm sorry than safe when you count the cost 

There's a bar out east called Scrum 

Only red wine and the finest of cigars 

And if we leave now we'll still get in 

You can find yourself a young consort 

Writers of unpopular fiction are trying to drink more 

Than bikies who've all left their beards at the door 

You'll drink all the wine and smoke your cigar 

And say "Thank you, thank you, for loving me at my worst" 

If this isn't love it's very close 

Can you hear the world is waking up? 

Can we be crazy for a few more years? 

Have I got them in me? 

Words and music by Tim Freedman 

Produced and engineered by Daniel Denholm 

Mixed by Rob Taylor 

Vocal, acoustic piano - Tim Freedman 

Telecaster guitar - Jack Housden 

Bar-room piano - Chris Abrahams 

Backing vocals - Bernie Hayes 

Keyboard axe - Matt Lovell 

Bass - Martin Craft 

Drums - Terepai Richmond 

Brass and strings arranged and conducted by Daniel Denholm 

Thanks Penny McDowell for the bikie line 

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