It takes a lot to really disappear
Always leave traces in the leaves
Never thought I´d see her here
Never thought I´d see her again

She sidewinders through the room to me
With a real cigarette and a Styrofoam coffee
She´s still wearing her father´s feather jacket
She holds out her hands and I stand to receive her
Trying to remember the last time I´d seen her
Somehow she looks younger now

She finishes off my drink and
Puts on her bonnet of pins and
Says I
Thought I´d find you much quicker than this
You must´ve thought I didn´t exist, poor you
I do
We´d better go before your boyfriends cry

She says she takes photos of tractor bones
And sells ´em to model luxury homes

The closest thing she´s ever found to love
Is the kind you can´t get rid of fast enough

She finishes off my drink and
Puts on her bonnet of pins and
Says I
Thought I´d find you much quicker than this
You must´ve thought I didn´t exist, poor you
I do
We´d better go before your boyfriends cry

Take the stairs to the bottom where the lights are out
And I´ll be there with a lighter and a Nabokov cocktail
Forget the questionnaires and the oral histories
I don´t care how many times you almost said you missed me

It´s a cup trick shell, it´s a puff of smoke
And it gets me every time, it´s a pretty good joke
I know that you miss me, I know that you miss me
This stuff takes a lifetime

She finishes off my drink and
Puts on her bonnet of pins and
Says I
Thought I´d find you much quicker than this
You must´ve thought I didn´t exist, poor you
I do
I thought I´d find you much quicker than this
You must´ve thought I didn´t exist, poor you
I do
We´d better go before your boyfriends cry