Liege Lost 2011

Luxembourg bound
From Oxford
The Ambassador behind the wheel
A Porsche Boxer
140 kph
Arrive
Folkestone
Late
Well past Midnight___
Wait
In the car park
Board the car-train
Chunnel
To
Pas De Calais
Night
Northern France
On the Autoroute___
The Ambassador behind the wheel
The Porsche fast
180kph
Alice loves speed___
Moi
Un passenger
Le passage
Flat
Eyes shut
Sleep
Wake
Still
Safe on the Autoroute
The ambassador behind the wheel
175 KPM
France becomes Belgium
Jacques Brel's land
Le plat pays qui est a mienne___
Walloonia
Luxembourg three hours away___
Sleep
Wake
We are lost
On a bleak urban street
A dead end
Not a soul in sight
Nothing says where we are
But I know__
Liege
I've been here before
With the ambassador
Two months ago
Alice
Behind the wheel
Lost before Lost now__ The ambassador says one word "Liege."
Alice and I have been here before
With the ambassador
Behind the wheel
Of this car
Lost
Same street
I say
"Turn around."
I have a good sense of direction Even in the dark
We have been her before__
Back on the Autoroute
Luxembourg bound
Lost in Liege
Well behind us
Heading into the dawn___