[Verse 1]

Half asleep with the sun coming up out east

We're driving down Garfield Ave

When you said a strange and significant thing

I can remember the words

"This was a beautiful night, it won't

It won't ever happen this way again"

[Verse 2]

No, my dear, nothing much grows around here

We carry our roots with us

A couple of weeds pulled up, misguided

Girl, you'll be the heroine of my book

The plot is the course we took

The setting can't be nowhere else in the world

[Chorus]

And the story opens up with you

Your broken dreams and cheap perfume

You're on a city bus, the rain, it falls

Your makeup bleeds, the wind, it howls

And I stumble on from uptown bars

I guess that's all I've got so far

Yeah, but at the end, I don't know how

You save me and then you save yourself

[Verse 3]

And it ends so soon, the night and the fading moon

I put my hand inside yours

The city looks strange and significant

Know these streets, the place where I'll live and die

Resigned to that fact, but I

I'm hoping it happens this way again

[Verse 2]

No, my dear, nothing much grows around here

We carry our roots with us

A couple of weeds pulled up, misguided

Girl, you'll be the heroine of my book

The plot is the course we took

The setting can't be nowhere else in the world

[Chorus]

And the story opens up with you

Your broken dreams and cheap perfume

You're on a city bus, the rain, it falls

Your makeup bleeds, the wind, it howls

And I stumble on from uptown bars

I guess that's all I've got so far

Yeah, but at the end, I don't know how

You save me and then you save yourself

[Chorus]

And the story opens up with you

Your broken dreams and cheap perfume

You're on a city bus, the rain, it falls

Your makeup bleeds, the wind, it howls

And I stumble on from uptown bars

I guess that's all I've got so far

Yeah, but at the end, I don't know how

You save me and then you save yourself

[Outro]

Fall asleep to the radio

Try to keep what I got from you

Hard to do in these dreary days