"Went To The Store" lyrics

"Went To The Store"

We met in a parking lot
I was buying coffee and cigarettes
Firewood and bad wine long since gone
But I'm still drunk and hot
Wide awake and breathing hard

And now in just one year's time
I've become jealous, rail-thin, prone to paranoia when I'm stoned
This isn't true love someone ought to put me in a home

Say, do you wanna get married?
And put an end to our endless, progressive tendency to scorn
Provincial concepts like your dowry and your Daddy's farm

For love to find us of all people
I never thought it'd be so simple

Let's buy a plantation house
And let the yard grow wild 'til we don't need the signs that say "KEEP OUT"
I've got some money left it's cheaper in the south

I need someone I can trust
To protect me from our seven daughters when my body says, "Enough"
I'll save the Big One for the last time we make love

I guess, insert here:
A sentiment re: Our Golden Years

All 'cause I went to the store one day

"I've seen you around
What's your name?"


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