Album: Last Five Years

See I'm Smiling

CATHERINE

I guess I can't believe you really came

And that we're sitting on this pier

See, I'm smiling

That means I'm happy that you're here

I stole this sweater from a costume shop

It makes me look like Daisy Mae

See, we're laughing

I think we're gonna be okay

I mean, we'll have to try a little harder

And bend things to and fro

To make this love as special

As it was five years ago

I mean, you made it to Ohio!

Who knows where else we can go

I think you're really gonna like this show

I'm pretty sure it doesn't suck

See, you're laughing and I'm smiling

By a river in Ohio

And you're mine

We're doing fine

I think we both can see what could be better

I'll own when I was wrong

With all we've had to go through

We'll end up twice as strong

And so we'll start again this weekend

And just keep rolling along

I didn't know you had to go so soon

I thought we had a little time

Look, whatever, if you have to

Then you have to, so whatever

It's all right

We'll have tonight

You know what makes me crazy?

I'm sorry, can I say this?

You know what makes me nuts?

The fact that we could be together

Here together

Sharing our night

Spending our time

And you are gonna choose someone else to be with

No, you are

Yes, Jamie, that's exactly what you're doing:

You could be here with me

Or be there with them

As usual, guess which you pick

No, Jamie, you do not have to go to another party

With the same twenty jerks you already know

You could stay with your wife on her fucking birthday

And you could, God forbid, even see my show

And I know in your soul it must drive you crazy

That you won't get to play with your little girlfriends

No, I'm not, no I'm not!

And the point is, Jamie,

That you can't spend a single day that's not about

You and you and nothing but you

"Mahvelous" novelist, you!

Isn't he wonderful, just twenty-eight

The savior of writing

You and you and nothing but you

Miles and piles of you

Pushing through windows and bursting through walls

En route to the sky

And I...

I swear to God I'll never understand

How you can stand there straight and tall

And see I'm crying

And not do anything at all