Oh, hello and goodbye
so fast it's gone
I can't get your face from my mind
can't get your eyes from my
can't stop your voices
on that day you told me directions to
where I don't know now
it all flew by me
so all I can do is hope that you
come my way
oh and you're nowhere near me
that you'll be there and hope that
with luck, I'll see you again

Oh I didn't get your name
nor you mine
or the time of day
but you're stuck on me like a fly on a table
oh I'm waiting here where we stood for just a moment
and you stole my way
and I, and I wonder will I see you again
and way, way
without the smile, the smile that blows away
the wait is too long
I want this thing to go on
and there's no way that I might find you again
I must walk a way

I'm all released by time
bump into each other
it seems so right
and say hey aren't you the
weren't you the
don't you think
but I don't think it's going to happen today
I fear you'll remain a dream
rain, rain on me, yeah, yeah, yeah
your life is burned
your life burned into me
it did it
will I ever


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    here are the right lyrics to this song So, um, so we’ve been doing this, uh, this tour, what I guess this is our Fifth show we’ve done, tim and i, and, uh... (applause) and, uh, so this little Song has been growing out, uh, while we’ve been playing, sort of a little Story. and the little story I was in new york city and, uh, I was walking down The street. trying to find the place I was going (I can’t remember where I was Going now). ’cause I met this girl and I asked her directions, you know. and She was, she was tiny, you know. she, she wasn’t young, she was just tiny. and, Uh, so I asked her directions and she said, ’oh that’s the way down there, walk Over there, go down there, you walk over there, and you go down there and then You’re there.’ something like that, anyway. so, uh, but I walked about ten Paces away and I was thinking... daaamn, that girl was fine. and, oh, I turned Around to tell her so, and ask her maybe her name, or maybe if we should go and Get a cup of, who knows, coffee or something. and I’m sure if I turned around And find Her there I would have found out something...

    But she talked so good But when I turned around, she was gone Oh, she was gone I didn’t even get her name, oh I thought, goddamn With your face in my mind And your voice in my ears To echoes Oh, I bought a lovely flower Standing there, we met that day And hope that you would return But, no, no, no

    I can’t remember where I was going But I can’t remember where I was leading to Or what led me to you, but Oh, and the weight is all through my head The look of you, the sound The way you cackled at me From then and then, I didn’t know where I was going But always I cry

    And so, hey, oh The hands that pour my hands on you again Hey, I will beg you, I’ll beg, oh See me, please find me again Oh, I’m lost again I sit here drinking coffee Or water depending the time of day But, oh, you’re with me like a ghost of a mother Oh, you’re with me like the pain of a father Oh, I wish i, I wish I could call you something Other than the girl that I saw then

    But, hey, I think that I would recognize you in a second But, hey, I only saw you for a minute, maybe less I don’t hold my hand where But I waited, honest I’m lost now, I’m lost now I can’t remember what I used to be But, oh, hey, yeah, weighted by the memory of The memory of a love that never got born, but hey Oh, hey

    Do I even cross your mind lately With more than just a laughing Did you think as you walked away, maybe You were, hey Oh, I hope you did So, hey, yeah You would, you would have been feeling The same thing as I am know

    agc116on January 26, 2005   Link

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