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Passing a Van

from Not Your Door by Robert Rotifer

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Passing a Van


I don't know if you spotted me
Through sheets of rain and spray
I was in that beat-up van
That you passed on the motorway
Along with seven other women
We were on our way out west
Thirty hours into the journey
Never stop to take a rest

As you were breezing past our van
I read your lips, you said
“That's the hordes coming in from the east”
And you were right
Cause true enough
We were coming to look after
Your mother and your father

We're coming for six weeks
Then we'll be going back again
I have met them all before
But I can't say that they're my friends
And as for my own son and daughter
I don't see much of them now
I save up all my affections
But they fizzle out somehow

When we roll into your city
The decisions have been made
We collect our bowls and bedpans
They're the tools of our trade
Yes I know more about your mother now
Than you have ever known
You should hear the things your father says
When he is on his own
He is on his own

We've come to look after
Your mother and your father

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from Not Your Door, released July 1, 2016

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Robert Rotifer Canterbury, UK

Robert Rotifer is a musician, writer, sometime artist, singer (of sorts), born in Vienna deep in the last century, He moved to the UK just before it ended (the century, that is), has made some 11 or 12 albums and has been lucky enough to play in bands he rates with people who also turned up on his records over the years.

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