Don’t Stop Now
Neil Finn
Another pleasant day in the countryside
Has ended up in tears on a stormy night
‘Cause you can’t follow my directions home
But don’t stop now
God knows where the satellite’s taking us
I can’t tell what’s right in front of us
But I hang on every word
And don’t stop now
No, don’t stop now
Give me something I can write about
Get fooled by the lightning every time
See the after-image of my outline
And you turn the wrong way ’round
But don’t stop now
No, don’t stop now
Give me something I can write about
Give me something I can cry about
In a church house ten miles out of town
Is the devil gonna track me down?
And travel through a tunnel in the trees
Just remember that’s how you get to me
There’s no number on the house
The birds are heading south
Sometimes you have to turn
The wrong way ’round
Sometimes you get too close to nowhere now
Restless hopeful in the silence I wait
With my blank piece of paper on the top of my head
And all I want is something I can write about
All I want is something I can cry about
Song appears on:
Crowded House - Time On Earth (2007)
Live: Fangradio Time On Earth special 25 February 2021
Single released 16 June 2007
“Some of the late songs for the album - three of them came from the house that we were living in [near Bath, 2006].
In fact, Don’t Stop Now, I was writing on the first day and my wife, Sharon, decided to drive a car in the country lanes of England. It descended into an incredibly dark and stormy night, as the song says. She got horribly lost and rang me a bit distressed. I had to guide her in and, after I’d got her back to the house and she’d calmed down, I played her the song I’d been writing and said all I was lacking was a title, and she came up with the title.
So there’s a beautiful little story to that one.”