Barenaked Ladies - Shoebox lyrics
[Barenaked Ladies - Shoebox lyrics]
A key in the door, a step on the floor
A note on the table, and a meal in the micro
Note says "I'm in bed
Please make sure that you're fed
If you're taking a shower
You can borrow my bathrobe
And when I'm asleep I dream
You move in next week"
I crumple the note and save it to put inside
My shoe box shoe box of lies
It's under my bed, it's never been read
It's in with my school stuff and
My mom never cleans there
From my first little fib
When I still wore a bib
To my latest attempt at
Pretending I'm someone who's not seventeen
And doesn't know what you mean
When talk turns to single malts, or Stilton
Or
My shoe box shoe box of lies
Shoe box shoe box of lies
Did somebody tell you
This is how it's supposed to be?
Or did you just find it
And you don't want any more from me?
Was it something I said
Or was it something you read
That's making me think that I
Should never have come here
I can offer you lies, I can tell you goodbye
I can tell you I'm sorry, but
I can't tell you the truth, dear
And what if I could - would it do any good?
You'll still never get to see the contents of
My shoe box shoe box of lies
My shoe box shoe box of lies
You're so nineteen-ninety
And it's nineteen-ninety-four
Leave this world behind me
'Cause you don't want me anymore
Lie lie
Lie lie
Lie lie
Lie lie
Lie lie
A note on the table, and a meal in the micro
Note says "I'm in bed
Please make sure that you're fed
If you're taking a shower
You can borrow my bathrobe
And when I'm asleep I dream
You move in next week"
I crumple the note and save it to put inside
My shoe box shoe box of lies
It's under my bed, it's never been read
It's in with my school stuff and
My mom never cleans there
From my first little fib
When I still wore a bib
To my latest attempt at
Pretending I'm someone who's not seventeen
And doesn't know what you mean
When talk turns to single malts, or Stilton
Or
My shoe box shoe box of lies
Shoe box shoe box of lies
Did somebody tell you
This is how it's supposed to be?
Or did you just find it
And you don't want any more from me?
Was it something I said
Or was it something you read
That's making me think that I
Should never have come here
I can offer you lies, I can tell you goodbye
I can tell you I'm sorry, but
I can't tell you the truth, dear
And what if I could - would it do any good?
You'll still never get to see the contents of
My shoe box shoe box of lies
My shoe box shoe box of lies
You're so nineteen-ninety
And it's nineteen-ninety-four
Leave this world behind me
'Cause you don't want me anymore
Lie lie
Lie lie
Lie lie
Lie lie
Lie lie