i'd like to thank you for the time you almost saved my life i know you don't remember it it was years ago but it still plays on my mind no, i never even told you why and i live with that crime you don't have the time but you make the time and the drinks we made they help the night just slip away and i've got what it takes to stay awake and the things we say they never mean much anyway and every day is a saturday another night that rolls its eyes as it blows a kiss goodbye a suckerpunch daylight creeping through the cracked blinds but we are young and made of fire and we're not afraid to fight just ask those kids from the other night and the drinks we made they help the night just slip away and i've got what it takes to stay awake and the things we say they never mean much anyway and every day is a saturday i've often wondered what it's like to be fit and clear and right but then you catch my eye and we both smile and the drinks we made they help the night just slip away and i've got what it takes to stay awake and the things we say they never mean much anyway and every day is a saturday and the ones that left us behind they live on in our minds save us seats and drinks on the other side goodbye

the first time i fell in love she spelled my name in dandelions and then there was the first kiss well, i wasn't hers but she was mine the next time i fell in love she was earth and she was fire i can't remember ever being that young but i remember how young smiled like you smile and i love the way that you sip your tea as you speak of poetry and antiques and i don't know how i should be it all comes down to sex and the city the third time i fell in love i could swear that it was right it was all sorts of nothing like hurt and we fought some good fights then the last time i fell in love i surprised myself with pain i was drunk it was 3am and i swore i wouldn't fall again and i fell and i love the way that you sip your tea as you speak of poetry and antiques and i don't know how i should be it all comes down to sex and the city the next time i fall in love i think i know just what to do: make sure that it's with you and i love the way that you sip your tea as you speak of poetry and antiques and i don't know how i should be it all comes down to sex and the city it all comes down to sex

i'm hung over and i want to die reaching out for all the wrong lies someone once said that the devil's in the details but the devil's right here ask me anything i know i'll answer well there's a girl drowning somewhere six states away and there's nothing i could ever do or be that could ever make that change so let me be and fall asleep i'll wake up hard and still weak daddy always said to run away god, of all the things to remember him say...

do you know what i'm feeling inside? i wish that i could show you what it's like to be me for a change i could change when i saw you that night you told me things were all right but it was something in your eyes that told me i won't be around to catch you when you fall down there will be no song that plays when you walk through the pouring rain and i'd wait suffering a romeo of simple things the moonlight and the pouring rain a backdrop for you walking away and i know that we got so tight and i know my feelings were right and don't understand how it changed but it changed and i've been acting so strange been staring off into space but don't go walking away i'm reaching for you wait i'll be around i'll catch you when you fall down i will sing the song that plays when you walk through the pouring rain wait i'll be around i'll catch you when you fall down i will sing the song that plays when you walk through the pouring rain show me your soul and be my world you're what i hold and i want more show me your soul and be my world you're what i hold and i want more

i think i'm going to try to calm down for a little bit i've had these same things on my mind for quite some time when will the bombs come? and will they find me when they do? somewhere in egypt there's a princess she looks just like you and every now and then my forefathers, they wake up inside of me somewhere they ask me questions like i'm the one who was supposed to know so if you're wondering what i muttered that night in my sleep i can't remember but chances are it was just another little piece of history the rain on the window starts to whisper in tongues across the room i see a fire burning from your head i've got an answer an angel came to me and said... o god, i can't remember so i smile at you and i go back to bed take me out tonight the dead street of the dirty town the bartender looks once and then puts his head down i'm so sorry about last night when i smashed my drink please forgive me i didn't mean it it was just another little piece of history the sun is coming up so i guess it's time to say goodnight but thanks for the wine and thanks for having me you people have certainly been all right and listen close someday for the kindness of tolerating me i'm going to write a beautiful song for you about another little piece of history

midday at the corner of my own space crumbling with mouth streaming sweat of years gone by and tears fell soft and smiles glossed we were going to be a thousand things we were living out a thousand dreams through one way to live and one way to die which way was it you went then? i haven't seen it in so long so so long i let it touch my face again trickle down it was nice my, my friend someday we'll be young again i guess it all comes back in the end

ani difranco wants me and her want, it keeps her very busy she doesn't even have time to write me letters and the ones i send come back to me but she backed me up on my last album and not for credit but for my love she's in the background singing, i swear it if you can't hear her, then turn it up i met her backstage at a concert i said, "you're such a righteous babe to me" it was such a forrest gump moment but i never got any royalties and she's got this sense of humor once she even called the police something about a boy outside her window but then she smiled when she saw that it was me she said, "we're on our own can you picture it? you and me, baby, and we're driving down the highway we can't be wrong if you think of it we illustrate the soundtrack and we're driving down the highway you know she's got me on her speed dial she calls when she's hung up on a chord and it's another industry inside secret that i write most of her words and we always go for coffee up to denny's or to a small cafe we have the greatest conversations most of our songs get written that way ok, so i never really met her but there was this one time that i almost did she stayed on her side of the courtroom and said, "can't you lock up this fucking kid?" so they granted the restraining order but i think in this case the system's wrong o, ani, can't you see i love you? i just wanted you to hear my new song it goes: we're on our own can you picture it you and me, baby, and we're driving down the highway we can't be wrong if you think of it we illustrate the soundtrack and we're driving down the highway i never asked to be different she'll never know the way i feel unless i hitthe highway so i drove all night through a misty rain and suddenly i catch a glimpse ani as she takes the stage her first song is a prince cover and i just love how she breaks it down into untouchable face she breaks a string before the third song and the crowd just waits but when she starts the show again this is what she'll say: "we're on our own can you picture it? you and me, jay, and we're just driving down the highway we might be wrong but just think of it we'll rewrite the whole soundtrack and we're driving down the highway we're on our own can you picture it? you and me, jay, and we're just driving down the highway we're not so wrong if you think of it we'll rewrite the whole soundtrack as we get another state away..."

and i like the way it feels when you talk to me i did too much cocaine and now i'll never sleep if i wait the whole night i still won't get it right just please don't leave i'd be like my father but there's no such thing and i like the way you're looking but you're glancing nervously and if i wait the whole night i still won't get it right just please don't leave and you feel like a breeze at least you do to me ask me what i'd do you for and i'll tell you: "anything" and if i wait the whole night i still won't get it right i lost at me i lost at me i lost at me

and i want to come back down the right way my head the right way up i'm sorry about the time that's come between us but my soul's been losing love i haven't really been anything but wired so you haven't missed too much and the whole rest of me is tired of fucking things all up i took a bus down into the city because i thought i'd find my head when i finally did i walked around it and came back home instead then i met a girl we called her "cocaine" because she always kept me up i woke up one sunday and she was gone and so was all my stuff i just came back to thank you for the kindness that you showed me when i needed it most in my darkest of hours so thank you for the lessons that you gave me if i only knew then what i know now i shouldn't have called so uninvited now i can't seem to shut my mouth call me up sometime tomorrow and we'll work something out i know these days you must be busy with a life moving right along i guess i'll take myself back to the city and see where i went wrong don't mind me i just burned a portrait and the fire's still on my mind let me step out for just a minute i just need some time i just want to be back in your front seat we could drive around this small town rememeber, we were kids that was all we did with the radio up and the windows down so take care i'll see you later no, i can't say when who knows? maybe things would be different if i knew now what i knew then