Just the Other Day

You could hardly call it sublime
 But it was a pretty good time
 She was resplendent in her fashion
 She lacked that certain passion
 I was such a keener
 For the lifestyle that had weaned her
 It was such a different scene
 And I tried to grow up mean
 And I met her in Alberta
 But never uttered a word-a
 Of feelings that I had
 Even when I felt real bad
 And life is so contrary
 Teenage years are scary
 Experience was nil
 And I see her still
 In the bar from the libraries
 Wars and bowls of cherries
 The poetry of ages
 The rosemaries and the sages
 And the wheat and wind and dirtiness
 The prairies and the earthiness
 The clumsiness of youth
 And the wisdom and the truth
 I was thinking just the other day
 Was it fun, was it dumb, was it right?
 Guess I'll get a case of beer
 Looks like I'm gonna be up all night
 Well it was neat and almost forgotten
 Not quite like Johnny Rotten
 All the punkers drank their fill
 And they puked on the windowsill
 Of a blurry, uncertain future
 While bustin' all the sutures
 Of a past tattooed with pain
 Impossible to explain
 And it took about forty full moons
 And a hundred thousand sad tunes
 And a million barricades
 A bad version of Purple Haze
 To lift the rusty visor
 Of jaded night inside her
 Saw the starting gun
 And life went on the run
 I was thinking just the other day
 Was it fun, was it dumb, was it right?
 Guess I'll get a case of beer
 Looks like I'm gonna be up all night
 Well I tried to stay behind her
 But the slipstream's a sidewinder
 And I tripped on an ideal
 And my heart burned a peel
 So I collected my resources
 And I ate about seven courses
 And a dozen bad mistakes
 Served on silver plates
 She lived happily ever after
 And I got caught in the laughter
 A minute by the stream
 Of an adolescent dream
 And I wound up in the alley
 With a broken heart to rally
 Against a world of hurt
 And we ate it for dessert
 So I lost her in Alberta
 And since then I never hurt-a
 Her vision or her light
 Or her blindness of her night
 Me, I'm parallel with danger
 Now that she's become a stranger
 Gotta laugh when it hits the surface
 Too bad the past can't find a purchase
 I was thinking just the other day
 Was it fun, was it dumb, was it right?
 Guess I'll get a case of beer
 Looks like I'm gonna be up all night
 I'm gonna be up all night