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
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