The Last Time That She Talked to Me - The Hold Steady

Walked around forever trying to find some other bank machine

That wasn’t gonna hit me with a service fee

I just remembered it was January 2nd

'Cause everyone was throwing out their Christmas tree

I can’t even figure out whoever’s in the party house

I’m out here on the front lawn with the head wound

Yeah sure you’re gonna move out to the city

Forgive me if I don’t believe you

I never did believe you

In the gardens all the trees were strung with speakers

They drowned us in the hiss of tambourines

I stumbled on some stunning new sincerity

It was the first time that I really felt the speed

It was the last time that she talked to me

Didn’t realize when I scouted the location

That I was standing with her new man

And of course he made a joke about the jumpsuit

When the band went into Caravan

If that’s the kind of clever that gets her at the buzzer

I guess that I was buzzing up the wrong tree

I wasn’t half as bad as what she must have thought I was

The last time that she talked to me

The last time that she talked to me

If all of my existence is ever on exhibit

Tell the curator to emphasize the tape machine

'Cause that’s what she was sitting on

When we finally started kissing on

The last time that she talked to me

In the entrance there was barely any mention

That the armies were amassing in the streets

The lingering suspicions of a million Hare Krishnas

Hissing from the speakers in the trees

In the kitchen there were signs that she was slipping

Someone saw her breaking off the tape machine

All I really said was that the clicks were in her head

It was the last time that she talked to me