To celebrate undying faith, weâ??re gathered here like drifted wrecks
for a late September wedding, October breathing down our necks.
I knew this town in another time. I knew this town a younger man
with the world in my hip pocket a subway token in my hand.
Mmm you got to me.
And they got candlelight and a reggae band, champagne by the bucket load
Limos lined up down the curb to take us where we need to go.
And I need to go somewhere Iâ??ve been to find a place I lost the trail
Way back then so long ago I donâ??t suppose you even know
You got to me.
Brought all this empty down on top of me.
You got to me.
We danced between the snowflakes falling, tripping on the cobblestones
And the trolley tracks, we had it all then, Christmas break your roommates gone
We stoked the fire and let it burn till the embers glowed in the morning light
Trust in the tangle of skin on skins Iâ??ve not known quite that feeling since
You got to me.
Brought all this empty down on top of me.
I didnâ??t know but we were not to be, but I know a thing or two now.
The wedding partyâ??s raging yet, how the old and desperate misbehave
Limo smells like cocaine sweat, cheap cologne and aftershave
Itâ??s gotta be one of these row house doors I knew the number long ago
I step out on the curb. Tell the driver just go on and go.
You got to me.
Brought all this empty down on top of me.
I didnâ??t know but we were not to be, but I know a thing or two now.
The paper boy wants a smoke, leans his bike against a tree
Heâ??s tired and cold and broke and he donâ??t what to make of me
Standing here in my three piece suit, standing here just like I am
With my vest unbuttoned and my neck tie loose, impervious to all abuse
You got to me.
Brought all this empty down on top of me.
Off on a thousand dollar odyssey, and I know a thing or two now.
Yeah I know a thing or two now.
Yeah I know a thing or two now.