North Main Street Lyrics - Ani Difranco

The warmth of north main street 

Shows me how I took myself through 

Illogical landscapes with you 

Scribbling on napkins in foreign ports 

All sorts of sidewalks I don't traverse anymore 

All kinds of people I don't write into the score 

Well I see you drive your car past my house 

You're so far from admitting I've emerged 

From under your deep weather 

You may never hear the future I have heard 

Oh the sound rebounds off the highest plateau 

Of the people I will love 

And the things I will know 

If I go 

The utility of lipstick 

Escapes to a styrofoam cup 

The coffee gone, the conversation strong 

Oh though leaving's never easy 

Sentiments like shadows grow long 

Your tears collect outside my bedroom window 

Like the winter's last little snow 

And I am still the worst company that I have ever kept 

I just didn't want you to witness my weakness as I wept 

And I still define myself by the places that I've been 

I just didn't want you to see me traveling inbetween 

It seems to me I'm not doing anything new 

I'm just not doing what I used to 

The warmth of north main street 

Shows me how I took myself through 

Illogical landscapes with you 

Scribbling on napkins in foreign ports 

All sorts of sidewalks I don't traverse anymore 

All kinds of people I know right into the score 

Well I see you drive your car past my house 

You're so far from admitting I've emerged 

From under your deep weather 

You may never hear the future I have heard 

Oh the sound rebounds off the highest plateau 

Of the people I will love 

And the things I will know 

If I go