Artist: Better Than Ezra Album: Before The Robots (2005) Title: A Lifetime
Lyrics A LifetimeAllie woke up 8am
Graduation day
Got into a car
And crashed along the way
When we arrived late to the wake
Stole the urn while they looked away
And drove to the beach
'Cause I knew you'd want it that way
And you were standing on the hood of the car
Singing out loud when the sun came up
And I know I wasn't right but it felt so good
And your mother didn't mind like I thought she would
And that REM song was playing in my mind
And three and a half minutes felt like a lifetime
It felt like a lifetime
And you move like water, I could drown in you
And I fell so deep once till you pulled me through
You would tell me, "No one is allowed to be so proud
they never reach out when they're giving up."
And I know I wasn't right but it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind like I thought she would
And that REM song was playing in my mind
And three and a half minutes felt like a lifetime
Are you sitting in the lights?
Or combing your hair again
And talking in rhymes?
Are you sitting in the lights?
When I got home, heard the phone, your parents had arrived
And your dad set his jaw, your mom just smiled and sighed
But they left soon
And I went to my room
Played that disc that you'd given me
And I shut my eyes
Swear I could hear the sea
When we were standing on the hood of your car
Singing out loud when the sun came up
And I know I wasn't right but it felt so good
And your mother didn't mind like I thought she would
And that REM song was playing in my mind
And three and a half minutes
Three and a half minutes felt like a lifetime |