Calgary Girls - The Smith Street Band

In dark corners and bars and ballrooms

Boys get childish and grow up too soon

I sit and stare at the Calgary girls

Pretty hair and their mummy’s pearls

Until the fear wells up and hits me

Send letters to a comfortable history

I used to have it all

Now my head falls hard and alone onto a motel pillow

And I know there’s a script that I could rehearse

And there are lines, I could make them work

But I don’t want them, I want you

And it’s not like there’s a space that I need to fill

Or like I have any time we could kill

But I don’t need this, I need you

And this is the exact thing that I always do

We used to lie right here and speak

We were fucking great between these sheets

That she bought to replace the old ones she left when she needed her own space

And I took the hand-me-downs

And I flipped the covers inside out

And I’ll pretend that I’m different now

And the first time we made love

It was dark and we were drunk

In someone else’s, someone else’s hostel bathroom

And you turned your back to me

And I said, «If this is the first of many

Then turn back around so I can fucking kiss you»

And I know there’s a script that I could rehearse

And there are lines, I could make them work

But I don’t want them, I want you

And it’s not like there’s a space that I need to fill

Or like I have any time we could kill

But I don’t need this, I need you

And this is the exact thing that I always do

If you see me again holding up some dive bar’s end

With a whisky sat far too naturally between my legs

Will you saunter over smokily and tell me about your family?

And I’ll tell you you were right when you said I’d end up lonely

And I’ll tell you that my life didn’t crack up to what our life would have been

And I’ll stand up to say something, fall straight back in my seat

And you will check your watch and say, «It's probably time for you to leave»

And I’ll stand up and say something brave and grand, fall straight back in my

seat

You will check your watch and say, «It's probably time for you to leave»

And you will offer me a ride

Only 'cause so it’s so fucking cold outside

You were always far too kind

And I know there’s a script that I could rehearse

And there are lines and I could make them work

But I don’t want them, I want you

And it’s not like there’s a space that I need to fill

Or like I have any time we could kill

But I don’t need this, fucking need you

And this is the exact thing that I always do