Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend Album Lyrics

I cannot understand my God
I don't know why it gets to me
One day my life is filled with joy
And then we find we disagree
All depending on his
Divine Intervention

Does he love us does he love us?
Does he love us does he love us?
I look around and all I see is destruction
We're all counting on his
Divine Intervention

Here comes the sunshine
Here comes the sunshine
Sunshine
The sunshine
Here it comes

I didn't think I'd find you
Perfect in so many ways
But I've been waiting (waiting)
And I want to (have you)
I've been waiting (waiting)
And I want to

The secret on your lips
That nobody knows
Gentle in your eyes
You can wear my clothes

I didn't think I'd find you
Perfect in so many ways
But I've been waiting (waiting)
And I want to (have you)
I've been waiting (waiting)
And I want to (have you)
I've been waiting (waiting)
And I want to

[solo]

When you said to me
You are not so old
Did I know it then?
'Cause I had just been told

You know I didn't think I'd find you
Perfect in so many ways
But I've been waiting (waiting)
And I want to (have you)
I've been waiting (waiting)
And I want to have you (have you) [3x]

I've been waiting

'Cause I'm looking at the sun waiting for you to appear
Watched you getting nearer like I knew it in my heart
'Til the damage was already done, looking at the sun
Burned my eyes out and I'm blind now, yeah I'm blind now

I was looking for somebody that you couldn't be
I was looking for somebody that you will never be
I was so sure that there was nothing wrong with me

For oh, looking at the sun waiting for you to appear
Watched you getting nearer like I knew it was in my heart
'Til the damage was already done looking at the sun
Burned my eyes out and I'm blind now, I'm blind

Do you really want to run away with me?
I can feel very clearly but no longer

Oh, looking at the sun waiting for you to appear
Watched you getting nearer like I knew it was in my heart
'Til the damage was already done, looking at the sun
Burned my eyes out and now I'm blind

Waiting for you to appear
Watched you getting nearer like I knew it was in my heart
'Til the damage was already done, looking at the sun
Burned my eyes out and I'm blind now, yeah I'm blind now

So you can see I've got a problem
Back by popular demand
Sometimes I want to keep it from you
Sometimes I think you'll understand

Could you be my little movie star
Could you be my long lost girl
It's true that I don't really know you
But I'm alone in the world

When I think maybe I need you
I don't care if it's not true
'Cause it isn't so much what I need now
As what I want from you

[Chorus 2x]

I feel alone...
I feel alone...

Evangeline Evangeline
I think I love you
But Evangeline Evangeline
I want you

Now if I called you up
Do you think you
Could deliver my soul?
Won't you take a drink
Little darlin'
The cup is full

And every night I bow to pray
But I'll feel a whole lot better
Once you're coming my way

Evangeline Evangeline
I think I love you
But Evangeline Evangeline
I want you

So come on down

So tell me how you want it
Come on, tell me how you want it
Just tell me how you want it

Just tell me how you want it
We won't be seen
You can tell your father
It was all a dream
[try her on she fits like a glove]
Too bad the only man you trust
Is god above

Evangeline Evangeline
I think I love you
But Evangeline Evangeline
I want you

Now Evangeline Evangeline
I think I love you
But Evangeline Evangeline
I want you

She's some kind of angel
If you know what I mean
Evangeline

Well I love you
And I want you
You should know that anyway
Well I love you
And I want you
Doesn't mean I'll stay

And how much can I tell you
When my brain is terminally light
And so bright
That I traded the day for
Night

What else can I tell you?
My life is simply very bright
So I traded the day for night
I traded the day for night

And it took me years to figure out
That there was nothing I could give to you
Years to figure out that there was nothing you would take from me
And how can I describe the way you slowly put my hope away
And all of the time
I thought I knew you

I thought I knew you
But I wasn't even close
I had my heart set
On little more than a ghost
And I thought I'd show you
There was no way we could lose
I thought I'd force you
To realize and choose

And it took me years to figure out
That there was nothing I could show to you
Years to figure out that you were never really going to choose
And how can I describe the way I slowly lost my love for you
And all of the time
I thought I knew you

And it took me years to figure out
That there was nothing I could show to you
Years to figure out that you were never really going to choose
And how can I describe the way I slowly lost my love for you
And all of the time
I thought I knew you

'Cause you don't love me
You don't love me
You can't see how I matter in this world
Even though I loved you
You can't believe that
If you find something
You think might make you happy
Then I guess it's okay, I think it's okay
If you go away

Blown right out of my senses
I did not know what to do
Lost and badly wanting someone
To see me through
That's why I needed you

But you don't love me, you don't love me
You can't see how I matter in this world
Even though I loved you
You can't believe that
You think that leaving
Is what will make you happy
Then I guess it's okay, I think it's okay
If you go away

'Cause you don't love me
You don't love me
You can't see how I matter in this world
Even though I loved you
You can't believe that
You think that leaving
Is what will make you happy
Then I guess it's okay, I think it's okay
If you go away
'Cause you don't love me
You don't love me...

But I, I wanted to tell you,
I needed to tell you,
What I couldn't say
And love,
I needed to find mine,
But it took me a long time,
To see

I wanted to tell you
I wanted to tell you
What I couldn't say love
I needed to find mine
But it took me a long time to see

Love... well never mind
I know how you feel about that
Now what do you think about time?

I wanted to tell you
I wanted to tell you
What I couldn't say love
I needed to find mine
But it took me a long time to see

I do what I want to to
I do what I want to to
I do what I want to to
I do what I want to to
I let the world surround me
'Cause I saw no real harm
I didn't stop to think of you
You were already in my arms
But there was something...

I wanted to tell you
I wanted to tell you
What I couldn't say love
I needed to find mine
But it took me a long time to see

Love...

There is so much I have left to say
Come back, you know I wrote another song
They keep telling me the past is gone
But it looks like my evil deeds are coming 'round
I can't watch them put you in the ground
Oh don't go

I can't watch them put you in the ground
Don't go

Don't go, don't make me have to say goodbye
'Cause I need to look you in the eye
Oh don't go
I still need to look you in the eye
Don't go

I still need to look you in the eye
Don't go

No don't go

If I can close my eyes without a fear
Speak to me with your sweet voice
Near

Hold me in your warm hand
And I could sleep with you tonight
Hold me in your warm hand
And I could sleep with you tonight

And all my earthly cares might fade away
If you hold me in your warm hand
That way

It's as close as I get to love
As close as I get to love
Speak to me with your sweet voice
Again

Speak to me with your sweet voice
And take me through another night
Speak to me with your soft voice
And I will surely be alright

If I can close my eyes without a fear
Speak to me with your sweet voice
Near
Speak to me with your sweet voice
That way
Speak to me with your sweet voice...

Did she lick your palm
To tell you your fortune tonight?
Did she lick your palm
To tell you your fortune tonight?
You know sometimes it just isn't worth
Putting up a fight, is it?

Gonna need you a key
To open the door to her heart
Gonna need you a key
To open the door to her heart
Or are you afraid her body is
Missing that part?

Well I can ... you up the ...
You can ... me up the ...
Alright

Well I can ... you up the ...
You can ... me up the ...
Alright

Because they took channel 23
Off the air last night
Down home

You're gonna like it
You're gonna like it...

'Cause I'm not in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand

Feeding the promised land
With your blood by my own hand
At Allah's own command
At Allah's own command

I've spent twenty years learning to live
In a world that takes back all that it gives
But I do not want a war

I don't know what's going on
In the scenes behind
I worry about it some of the time
And I hope there's not a war

'Cause I'm not in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand

And I would walk across highways
To find my fate
If that might settle your crude debate
But I do not want a war

'Cause I'm not in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand

Feeding the promised land
With your blood by my own hand
At allah's own command
At allah's own command

I came up from the desert and here I will die
Tooth for tooth and an eye for an eye
Though I didn't want a war

I went in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
As if there's a god who would understand
I went in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
As if there's a god who would understand
Oh yeah...

Then I'd try to hang on to the past
But you know that nothing, oh no, nothing lasts
Nothing lasts

It's time to move on
Let the past go
I've waited for you here
But you never showed
Although I asked you
To let me know
I only felt the cold wind blow
While I tried to hang on to the past
But you know that nothing
Oh no nothing lasts

Nothing's in your way
Now you can stand right up and run
Wouldn't even change things
If you took back what you'd done
I have tried to hang on to the past
But I couldn't keep my grasp cause nothing lasts

Nothing lasts

Nothing lasts