(music)
(Betsy laughs)
- Yes.
(laid-back music)
(Betsy sighs)
♪ My best friend had a little situation ♪
♪ At the end of our senior year ♪
♪ And like a shot she and Mitchell got married that summer ♪
♪ Carolann gettin' bigger every minute ♪
♪ Thinkin', what am I doin' here ♪
♪ While Mitchell's out every night ♪
♪ Bein' a heavy-metal drummer ♪
(drumming)
♪ They got a little cute house ♪
♪ On a little cute street ♪
♪ With a crucifix on the door ♪
♪ Mitchell got a job at a record store in the mall ♪
(slow drumming)
Thank you.
♪ Just the typical facts of a typical life ♪
♪ In a town on the Eastern Shore ♪
♪ I thought about what I wanted ♪
♪ It wasn't like that at all ♪
♪ Made Carolann a cute baby sweater ♪
♪ Thinking, I can do better than that ♪
(laughs)
(guitar strums)
♪ In a year or so I moved to the city ♪
♪ Thinkin', what have I got to lose ♪
♪ Got a room, got a cat ♪
♪ And got twenty pounds thinner ♪
♪ Met a guy in a class I was taking ♪
♪ With some very well-placed tattoos ♪
♪ He wouldn't leave me alone ♪
♪ Unless I went with him to dinner ♪
♪ And I guess he was cute ♪
♪ And I guess he was sweet ♪
♪ And I guess he was good in bed ♪
♪ I gave up my life for the better part of a year ♪
(scoffs)
♪ So I'm starting to think that this maybe might work ♪
♪ And the second it entered my head ♪
♪ He needed to take some time off ♪
♪ Focus on his career ♪
♪ He blew me off with a heartfelt letter ♪
♪ I thought, I can do better than that ♪
♪ You don't have to get a haircut ♪
♪ You don't have to change your shoes ♪
♪ You don't have to like Duran Duran ♪
♪ Just love me ♪
♪ You don't have to put the seat down ♪
♪ You don't have to watch the news ♪
♪ You don't have to learn to tango ♪
♪ You don't have to eat prosciutto ♪
♪ You don't have to change a thing ♪
♪ Just stay with me ♪
♪ I want you and you ♪
♪ And nothing but you ♪
♪ Miles and piles of you ♪
♪ Finally I'll have something worthwhile ♪
♪ To think of each morning ♪
♪ You and you ♪
♪ And nothing but you ♪
♪ No substitution will do ♪
♪ Nothing but fresh, undiluted, and pure ♪
♪ Top of the line ♪
♪ And totally mine ♪
♪ I don't need any lifetime commitments ♪
♪ I don't need to get hitched tonight ♪
What?
♪ I don't want you to throw up all your walls ♪
♪ And defenses ♪
♪ I don't mean to put on any pressure ♪
♪ But I know when a thing is right ♪
♪ And I spend every day reconfiguring my senses ♪
♪ When we get to my house ♪
♪ Take a look at that town ♪
♪ Take a look at how far I've gone ♪
♪ I will never go back ♪
♪ Never look back anymore ♪
♪ And it feels like my life led right to your side ♪
♪ And will keep me there from now on ♪
♪ Think about what you wanted ♪
♪ Think about what could be ♪
♪ Think about how I love you ♪
♪ Say you'll move in with me ♪
♪ Think of what's great about me and you ♪
♪ Oh, think of the bullshit we've both been through ♪
♪ Think of what's past ♪
♪ Because we can do better ♪
♪ We can do better ♪
♪ Than that ♪
♪ We can do better than that ♪
(sighs)
(jazzy music)