My Dad and I were driving trucks
I guess I was still fifteen
I don't know where we were going
Or even where we had been
But as my Dad stared at the horizon
And out where the road was taking us
Without even looking my way
He said there is something we will discuss
I know you don't like the same as me
And that is always perfectly fine
But in the interests of your happiness
I want to share my mind
The only things you need in life
Are simple and never hard
You need the love of a partner
And a solid built, fast car
You will have to get a best mate
And always look for friends that are true
But most of all you will need, my son
Is a concrete sense of You
He lapsed into a silence
But I knew his words profound
I thought I could see his sense
A sense of truth in him I found
I never thought of my Dad
As a philosophical sort of soul
But admit I had never seen him sad
I had never thought about his goals
There was a deeper feeling
To those words that he did share
Like a layer laid unpeeling
And a tiny secret he laid bare
The only things you need in life
Are simple and never hard
You need the love of a partner
And a solid built, fast car
You will have to get a best mate
And always look for friends that are true
But most of all you will need, my son
Is a concrete sense of You
We continued down the highway
A destination not in sight
I did my life all my way
But in his words, I saw some light
I have taken from my Father
His sense of wrong and what is right
In his simple choice of words
He lives on in me alright
The only things you need in life
Are simple and never hard
You need the love of a partner
And a solid built, fast car
You will have to get a best mate
And always look for friends that are true
But most of all you will need, my son
Is a concrete sense of You
Get a concrete sense of You!