Fourth Time Around - Georgia Hubley Ira Kaplan James McNew John Sebastian Peter Phillips Stanley Dural Jr. Terry Adams Yo La Tengo

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