Name: Running a Motorway
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Description: Everything is for sale - everybody who fight for their vision can be bought for the right price. Name yours...

Running a Motorway

from Menn Ársins by Menn Ársins

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RUNNING A MOTORWAY

A fellow came up to me and said "what's my name"?
When I failed to answer he frowned
He said he'd been around since the beginning of time last week or so
And he had the lawful right to boss me around

I don't believe the words he said to me
I don't believe the funds he offered me
The sugarcoated facts the wide-screen TV
A real Utopian life in industry

Running a motorway
We're running a motorway
Through deserts of everyday
Embrace it or stay away

Mmmmm….

A man once tried to protest the things you cannot protest
He got run over by a truckload of twisted reasoning
A woman tied herself to a fence trying to chance our way of thinkin'
Backed her bags and send her away.

I try to bury my beliefs and smile
I try to not to look down just up to the skies
And every feet is suddenly a mile
A real Utopian life brings tears to my eyes

Running a motorway
We're running a motorway
Through deserts of everyday
Embrace it or stay away

Mmmmm….

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from Menn Ársins, released September 29, 2008
Song & lyric: Haraldur Vignir Sveinbjörnsson

Haraldur Vignir: keyboards, guitars, vocals

Kjartan Guðnason: drums, "snare drums band", percussion

Sigurdór Guðmundsson: fretless bass, electric bass

Sváfnir Sigurðarson: electric guitar

Emil Friðfinnsson: horn
Stefán Jón Bernharðsson: horn
Guðmundur Hafsteinsson: flugelhorn

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