Once met a girl from Roanoke, Virginia
Her eyes were green, her hair was red, she was 24 and I was 19 and we'd fuck like bunnies all day on her waterbed
We listened to Hüsker Dü's 'Candy Apple Grey' and 'Warehouse Songs & Stories' so many times that my ears bled
We listened to Lou Reed's 'Berlin', I loved the sadness and the starkness of 'Caroline Says' and especially 'The Kids'
Sometimes her and I we'd have a lot of fun and sometimes we'd fight
She had a son, he was 4, one time they dropped me off at a Greyhound bus station in the middle of the night
And I sat there all night waiting for the bus
Knowing it was finally the end of us
It took me years to see where I was wrong
I didn't have any money back then and she got tired of carrying me along
But we kept in touch and one day in Philadelphia
She came to a show of mine and we went back to her apartment together
Her son was taller than me and he was sitting there at his computer
And the next morning we met up at a Jewish deli with some friends of hers
And I don't believe that I've ever seen her since then
But up in Vancouver I did meet Lou Reed I told him how much that I loved 'Berlin'
And he said “And who are you?”
And I also met Bob Mould from Hüsker Dü at an Austin airport on my way home
And he said my version of 'Celebrated Summer' was on this phone
It's funny where life takes you
And all the adventures that we go through
And who we meet along the way
The things that catch our eyes that make us think of yesterday
It's crazy where life takes you
And all the music that we hear that reminds us of the friends and lovers we knew
And as we get older every corner we turn
There's still new things that open our eyes and things to learn
There's bittersweet and love and sadness
There's uplift in the air and there's insanity and madness
Her eyes were green, her hair was red, she was 24 and I was 19 and we'd fuck like bunnies all day on her waterbed
We listened to Hüsker Dü's 'Candy Apple Grey' and 'Warehouse Songs & Stories' so many times that my ears bled
We listened to Lou Reed's 'Berlin', I loved the sadness and the starkness of 'Caroline Says' and especially 'The Kids'
Sometimes her and I we'd have a lot of fun and sometimes we'd fight
She had a son, he was 4, one time they dropped me off at a Greyhound bus station in the middle of the night
And I sat there all night waiting for the bus
Knowing it was finally the end of us
It took me years to see where I was wrong
I didn't have any money back then and she got tired of carrying me along
But we kept in touch and one day in Philadelphia
She came to a show of mine and we went back to her apartment together
Her son was taller than me and he was sitting there at his computer
And the next morning we met up at a Jewish deli with some friends of hers
And I don't believe that I've ever seen her since then
But up in Vancouver I did meet Lou Reed I told him how much that I loved 'Berlin'
And he said “And who are you?”
And I also met Bob Mould from Hüsker Dü at an Austin airport on my way home
And he said my version of 'Celebrated Summer' was on this phone
It's funny where life takes you
And all the adventures that we go through
And who we meet along the way
The things that catch our eyes that make us think of yesterday
It's crazy where life takes you
And all the music that we hear that reminds us of the friends and lovers we knew
And as we get older every corner we turn
There's still new things that open our eyes and things to learn
There's bittersweet and love and sadness
There's uplift in the air and there's insanity and madness
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