Well, I hear you're driving someone else's car now
She said you came and took your stuff away
All the poetry and the trunk you kept your life in
I knew that it would come to that someday
Like a sad hallucination
When I opened up my eyes
The train had passed the station
And you were trapped inside
Yet I never wonder where you went
I only wonder why, I wonder why

Oh Caroline
Oh Caroline
Oh, oh Caroline
Whoa, whoa, whoa Caroline

Well I hear you're using someone else's number
She said she saw you in the store today
It doesn't matter whose address you're listed under
I only know they'll never make you stay
Like a memory in motion
You were only passing through
That is all you've ever known of life, that's all you'll ever do
There's a dream I have where I sail away
Looking back I wave at you, and I wave goodbye

Oh Caroline
Oh Caroline
Oh Caroline
Oh (Caroline)

In another life I see you as an angel flying high
And the hands of time will free you
You will cast your chains aside
And the dawn will come and kiss away
Every tear that's ever fallen from your eyes
Behind those eyes I wonder

(Caroline)
Oh Caroline oh oh oh
(Caroline, Caroline)
Oh Caroline
Sometimes I wonder (Caroline)
Oh Caroline
Sometimes I, sometimes I wonder (Caroline)
(Caroline) oh Caroline


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Caroline Lyrics as written by Johnette Lin Napolitano

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    I suspect the reason you're thinking this song is about a stripper is because the music video for this song featured a stripper as the main character.

    Not sure if that matches the meaning of the song or if that was just the video producer's idea of the song, tho.

    Rookon May 24, 2006   Link

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