Driving through the long night trying to figure Who's right and who's wrong, now the kid has gone I sit belted up tight, she sucks on a match light Glowing bronze, steering on And I might be more of a man if I stopped this in it's tracks And said, "Come on, let's go home" But she's got the wheel and I've got nothing Except what I have onWhen you're driving with the brakes on When you're swimming with your boots on It's hard to say you love someone And it's hard to say you don't Trying to keep the mood right, trying to steer the conversation From the thing we've done She shuts up the ashtray, and I say "It's a long way back now hon" And she just yawns And we might get lost someplace so desolate that No one where we're from would ever come But she's got the wheel and I've got to deal From now on When you're driving with the brakes on When you're swimming with your boots on It's hard to say you love someone And it's hard to say you don't But unless the moon falls tonight Unless continents collide Nothing's gonna make me Break from her side' Cause when you're driving with the brakes on When you're swimming with your boots on It's hard to say you love someone And it's hard to say you don't It's hard to say you love someone And it's hard to say you don't