Not There at All

Your favorite albums make me swoon

I gotta clean my ears to sing for you

But time and space get in our way

You parted your teeth just to say that

This year has been so hard

And you can't say anything that you don't mean

You thought I'd forget about your birthday

I couldn't do anything quite so mean

I only know how to speak this fast

When I'm covering up the fact

That the truth of the matter is that I don't know

What I'm talking about

So if you wanna be tucked in, you wanna be bathed

I can do those things

And I can always stick around

Not ever being there at all

My incentive to quit cigarettes

Is somewhere in Georgia, I must admit

It wouldn't matter if it were Germany

I still couldn't make my lighter work

It doesn't work as well as words that

I mean but I oughta say

Like cliche "I love you" sentences

My house is kinda messy but I'll clean it for you

I only know how to speak this fast

When I'm covering up the fact

That the truth of the matter is that I don't know

What I'm talking about

So if you wanna be tucked in, you wanna be bathed

I can do those things

And I can always stick around

Not ever being there at

All I ever wanted was

Someone who'd inspire love songs

So I could mean them for once

I only know how to speak this fast

When I'm covering up the fact

That the truth of the matter is that I don't know

What I'm talking about

So if you wanna be tucked in, you wanna be bathed

I can do those things

And I can always stick around

Not ever being there at all