It Couldn't Be Me - Johnathan Rice

We’re driving through the canyons

Singing songs from the sixties

The telephone rang, she said

«Babe, do ya miss me?»

And ain’t it a shame not to love

The one you’re with

Well, she spoke with the prettiest mouth

And she scorned me

She sharpened her teeth

And flashed them to warn me

Said, «Ain't it a shame when you hate

The one you loved?»

Hey, it couldn’t be me

It couldn’t be me

No, they’re mining your dreams

He don’t look a thing like me

See, I dated this rich girl

With a mother of pearl

Who paid rent in her high rise

The weight of the world

And ain’t it a shame when you’re exchanging

All your brand new gifts

And after a night on the floor

She put the chain on her door

I wore out my welcome

I guess she got bored

'Cause she laid eyes on my brother

And laid him across my bed

And it couldn’t be me

It couldn’t be me

No, they’re mining your dreams

He don’t look a thing like me

Well, it sounds like rain

And here, that’s a rare thing

Out here in this desert

We’re stealing our water

From a hole in a mountain

That flows to the affordable homes

And from a faucet, it drips

So we’ll clean up the messes

The others have left us

Well I think they blessed us

There’s a chain on my door

But I’m in love with the one I’m with

Hey, it couldn’t be me

It couldn’t be me

No, they’re mining your dreams

He don’t look a thing like me

And it couldn’t be me

No, it couldn’t be me

No, they’re mining your dreams

He don’t look a thing like me