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Sweaterdress

from Queen City Quandaries by Old Empire

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You came to me that night in a sweaterdress.
I was wrong at first but you let me take another guess
At what was being hidden underneath,
And you looked at me with bleary eyes in my room.
You just won't let me get next to you.
You just won't let me.
You just won't let me get next to you.
You just won't let me.

You're like a cougar that's lost one tooth.
You're like an omen that never comes through,
At least not most of the time,
And you always like to be outside on a new moon.
You just won't let me get next to you.
You just won't let me.
You just won't let me get next to you.
You just won't let me.

I heard you were drinking alone at the bar re-invoking all of your ghosts,
But it's not your style to take it that far
'Cause you're just not that kind of girl,
Not one to ever show her hand to the world.
You know that's just not you.

I was there last night when you bummed a cigarette.
You were talking to someone you just had met,
And wouldn't have to know for very long.
And you drowned him in your big brown eyes on your new moon.
They line up just to get next to you.
They stand in line now.
I know there's no getting next to you.
It don't take no Einstein
To see you're just not that kind of girl,
Not one to ever show her hand to the world.
No, you're just not that kind of girl.
You know that's just not you.

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from Queen City Quandaries, released April 14, 2009

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