Then Jim Rilo Kiley

[Verse 1]
I had one friend in high school
Recently, he hung himself with string
His note said, "If living is the problem
Well, that's just baffling"
And at the wake, I waited around
To see my ex first love
And I barely recognized her
But I knew exactly what she was thinking of
We sat quietly in the corner
Whispering close about loss
And I remembered why I loved her
And I asked her why I drove her off

[Chorus]
She said
"The slow fade of love
Its soft edge might cut you
And our poor friend Jim
Well, he just lived within
The slow fade of love"

[Verse 2]
A woman calls my house once a week
She's always selling things
Some charity, a phone plan
A subscription to a magazine
And as I turned her down, I always do
There was something trembling in her voice
I said, "Hey, what troubles you?"
She said, "I'm surprised you noticed
Well, my husband, he's leaving
And I can't convince him to stay
And he'll take our daughter with him
She wants to go with him anyway
I'm sorry I'm hard to live with
Living is the problem for me
I'm selling people things they don't want
When I don't know what you need"

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