I Liked Her Smile The Best

Heading on downtown, I aint got no friends.
No one knows my name or is going to let me in.
All the girls are Japanese and they wont look me in the eye.
I don't like talking to strangers, I really very shy

I think this bar is closing, I'm sitting on my on.
I'm like an orphan and a misfit, three thousand miles from home.
I got a flick knife in my pocket and a whisky in my hand.
And a long way I need to walk. So come and help me stand.

She got on the east train. I got on the west.
I liked to see her pretty eyes. I liked her smile the best.
Now she is forgotten. That's not true; she's just a dream.
Everything is exactly the way that it seems.
 
I'm walking very slowly. Heading west, down College Street.
I try and start an argument with everyone I meet.
And the sirens pierce the night like a screaming homeless child.
I seen something like this once before, this night has gotten wild.

She got on the east train. I got on the west.
I liked to see her pretty eyes. I liked her smile the best.
Now she is forgotten. That's not true; she's just a dream.
Everything is exactly the way that it seems

If you don't mind me asking; then what happened to your face.
And where the fuck's the toilets in this God forsaken place?
There's a fistfight in the kitchen, it makes a women near me cry.
I'm laughing to myself I hope this city never dies

She got on the east train. I got on the west.
I liked to see her pretty eyes. I liked her smile the best.
Now she is forgotten. That's not true; she's just a dream.
Everything is exactly the way that it seems
 

© Copyright 2004. Ryan O'Reilly. All Rights Reserved

- R.O'Reilly
Rec. with The Raindogs 2004, Sound on Sound
Written October 2004, in Toronto
1^st played with The Raindogs @ The Talking Heads, Nov '04