Tuesday, September 01, 2009

/// the sweetest thing



i'm going on a date tonight 
to try to fall out of love with you 
i know, I know this is a crime 
but I don't know what else to do 

my love, you're in a magazine 
my love, you're doing fine, you're on TV 
you pull my heart out and then you run away 
from Chicago to Cleveland you leave me pain 
you leave me pain 

when you're lucid you're the sweetest thing 
i would trade my mother to hear you sing 
when you're lucid you're the sweetest thing 
i would trade my mother 

on the bus radio, "Fifty ways to leave your lover alone" 
i laughed at the irony 
but life is stupid, the irony all lost on me 
it got lost on me 

when you're lucid you're the sweetest thing 
i would trade my mother to hear you sing 
when you're lucid you're the sweetest thing 
i would trade my mother 

you challenged me to write a love song 
here it is, I think I got it wrong 
i focused on the negative 
the pain was too much to write and sing 
oh, it was not a nice incentive 

when you're lucid you're the sweetest thing 
i would trade my other to hear you sing 
when you're lucid you're the sweetest thing 
i would trade my other to hear you sing 

but she don't know just how far I'd go 
would I walk for a hundred miles 
for an instant northern smile?

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