Calgary Girls

In dark corners and bars and ballrooms
 Boys get childish and grow up too soon
 I sit and stare at the Calgary girls
 Pretty hair and their mummy's pearls
 'Till the fear wells up and hits me
 Send letters to a comfortable history
 I use to have it all
 Now my head falls hard and alone
 Onto a motel pillow
 And I know there's a script that I could rehearse
 And there are lines I could make them work
 But I don't want them
 I want you
 And it's not like there's a space that I need to fill
 Or like I have any time we could kill
 But I don't need this
 I need you
 And this is the exact thing that I always do
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 We use to lie right here and speak
 We were fucking great between these sheets
 That she bought to replace
 The old ones she left when she needed her own space
 And I took the hand-me-downs
 And I flipped the covers inside out
 And I'll pretend
 That I'm different now
 And the first time we made love
 It was dark and we were drunk
 In someone else's
 Someone else's passed out bathroom
 And you turned your back to me
 And I said, "If this is the first of many then turn back around"
 "So I can fucking kiss you"
 And I know there's a script that I could rehearse
 And there are lines I could make them work
 But I don't want them
 I want you
 And it's not like there's a space that I need to fill
 Or like I have any time we could kill
 But I don't need this
 I need you
 And this is the exact thing that I always do
 If you see me again
 Holding up some dive bars end
 With a whisky sat far too naturally
 Between my legs
 Will you saunter over smokely and
 Tell me about your family?
 And I'll tell you you were right
 When you said I'd end up lonely
 And I'll tell you that my life
 Didn't crack up to what our life would have been
 And I'll stand up to say something
 Fall straight back in my seat
 And you will check your watch
 And say, "It's probably time for you to leave"
 And I'll stand up to say something brave and grand
 Fall straight back in my seat
 And you will check your watch
 And say, "It's probably time for you to leave"
 And you will offer me a ride
 Only 'cause it's so fucking cold outside
 You were always far too kind
 And I know there's a script that I could rehearse
 And there are lines I could make them work
 But I don't want them
 I want you
 And it's not like there's a space I need to fill
 Or like I have any time we could kill
 But I don't need this
 Fucking need you
 And this is the exact thing that I always do