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Yo La Tengo – Fourth Time Around

Singers: Yo La Tengo
song cover

Lyrics Yo La Tengo – Fourth Time Around

Text:

When she said, «Don’t waste your words, they’re just lies»
I cried she was deaf
And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes
And what else you got left

It was then that I got up to leave
But she said, «Don’t forget
Everybody must give something back
For something they get»

I stood there and hummed, I tapped on her drum
I asked her how come
And she buttoned her boot and straightened her suit
Then she said, «Don’t get cute»

So, I forced my hands in my pockets
And felt with my thumbs
And gallantly handed her
My very last piece of gum

She threw me outside, I stood in the dirt
Where everyone walked
And after finding that I forgotten my shirt
I went back and knocked

I waited in the hallway, she went to get it
And I tried to make sense
Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair
That leaned up against

Her Jamaican rum and when she did come
I asked her for some
She said, «No, dear», I said, «Your words aren’t clear
You’d better spit out your gum»

She screamed till her face got so red
Then she fell on the floor

And I covered her up and then
Thought I’d go look through her drawer

And when I was through I filled up my shoe
And brought it to you
And you, you took me in, you loved me then
You never wasted time

And I, I never took much
I never asked for your crutch
Now, don’t ask for mine