It Wasn't Me Lyrics - Singles - Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins

It wasn't me, I wasn't there 

I was just watching from over here 

And besides, I couldn't afford the bus fare 

In Hollywood and Washington 

They shake and smile through the harm they've done 

But it's your little red wagon and you gotta pull it 

It'll take a lifetime to clear your name 

Under the bridges of fame it's always nighttime 

It wasn't me, I wasn't there 

I was stone drunk, it isn't clear 

And it doesn't count cause I don't care 

The years transform my memories 

Of all the countless decades of grief 

It was cut and run in '91 

Put yourselves in a straightjacket 

But when you're pleading 

Saying it's no cheaper than humiliation 

That's free... 

That's free... 

That's free... 

I've gone and quit my worshipping 

Of the false gods and golden sins 

Cause we've made love in the Tower of Babel and it fell down 

It wasn't me, I wasn't there 

That was not my love affair 

That is not my lover, that's not even my friend 

It wasn't me, I wasn't there 

I was stone drunk, it isn't clear 

And it doesn't count cause I don't care 

But I use a pop song to clear my name 

Under the bridges of fame it's always nighttime 

I'll end with a closer, and say goodnight