names and dates and timesi know so many white people i mean where do i start the trouble with white people is you just can't tell them apart i'm so bad with names and dates and times but i'm big on faces that is except for mine i believe you when you tell me that we've met before but this time you got my interest this time you got the floor why don't you go and tell me something i don't already know give me something to remember you by when i go i eat too much i laugh too long maybe i'll like too much of you when i'm gone let's go over to the window and sit in the neon light let's go out walking you know it's garbage night let's go down to the east river and throw something in something we can't live without then let's start again the more you talk the more i get the sense of something that hasn't happened yet the more you talk the more i want to know the way i'll remember you when i go i eat too much i laugh too long maybe i'll like too much of you when i'm gone i am so many white people i mean where do i start i got lots of personalities i just can't tell them apart and i never remember anything except for those things that i never forget there's no in between i'm big on your face yeah it's big in my mind you're like the rest of the human race you are one of a kind © 1993 ani difranco / righteous babe music |