Providence Lyrics - To The Teeth - Ani Difranco

Who knew 

At this party that 

I would walk in and I'd see you 

I guess now 

We could just get drunk 

Yeah, and that would be our excuse 

You could slip 

And outta nowhere 

I could be there to catch your fall 

And we could laugh at ourselves 

And the writing that's on the wall 

It's a narrow margin 

Just room enough for regret 

In the inch and a half between 

Hey, how ya been? 

And 

Can I kiss you yet? 

So we talk like 

Nervous neighbors over a tall fence 

True love 

But for lack of providence 

But I just got one more 

Thing to tell you 

'Cause words are vitamins 

And life is short 

And I know when we get up 

To the front office 

We're gonna have to fill out 

A full report 

The first question will be 

What were you thinking? 

And the next question will be 

What did you say? 

And then they're gonna check to see 

If the answers to one and two 

Matched up much 

Along the way 

In the interest of poetry 

And the cowboy movie 

That's you and me 

I'm back on the horse now 

And I am riding 

I am striding so effortlessly 

What I mean is 

It's late 

Much too late for us 

And I'm fixing to go home 

With just my conscience 

And a bitter sense of irony 

As my chaperon