Verse 1
We Were Rolling Out Of Glasgow
In A Van That Barely Ran,
Two Dogs In The Back Seat,
And A Smoke Passed Hand To Hand.
Tha Dalmatian By The Window,
Spots Against The Rain,
Nose Pressed To The Glass
Like She Knew Every Road By Name.
You Had That Old Guitar, Love,
I Had Rhythm In My Hands,
We’d Sing Until Our Voices Broke
In Streets, Pubs, And Vans.
Chorus
And I Can’t Play Those Drums No More,
But I Still Hear Them On That Dance Floor,
You Strumming Chords By The Open Door,
Me Keeping Time Like I Did Before.
We Had No Money, But God, We Had Fun,
Smoking Weed And Chasing The Sun,
No, I Can’t Play Those Drums No More,
But I Still Feel The Beat From Before.
Verse 2
We Busked Down In Maybole,
Got Moved On In Perth,
Sang Outside A Chippy
Like We Owned Half The Earth.
You’d Play Guitar With Freezing Hands,
I’d Tap That Drum And Sing,
Two Dogs Ced Up Beside Us
Like They Knew Everything.
We’d Harmonise Through Traffic Noise,
Laughing When We Missed A Line,
But Somehow All The Broken Bits
Still Sounded Good In Time.
Chorus
And I Can’t Play Those Drums No More,
But I Still Hear Them On That Dance Floor,
You Strumming Chords By The Open Door,
Me Keeping Time Like I Did Before.
We Had No Money, But God, We Had Fun,
Smoking Weed And Chasing The Sun,
No, I Can’t Play Those Drums No More,
But I Still Feel The Beat From Before.
Bridge
Aye, We Were Daft And We Were Free,
A Little Lost, But Full Of Music And Song,
Two Voices In A Battered Van,
Trying To Prove We Belonged.
And I’d Give Anything
For One More Night Like Then,
You On Guitar Beside Me,
Me Finding The Beat Again.
Chorus
No, I Can’t Play Those Drums No More,
But I Still Hear Them When The Rain Starts To Pour,
In Every Lay-By, Every Streetlight,
Every Busker By The Door.
We Had No Plan, But We Had Love,
A Beat-Up Van And The Stars Above,
No, I Can’t Play Those Drums No More,
But I Still Carry The Beat From Before.
Outro
Aye, I Still Carry The Beat From Before.
Your Guitar, My Drums, Our Voices Raw.
No, I Can’t Play Those Drums No More,
But We Had Good Times.
God, We Had Good Times.
