Barenaked Ladies Lyrics

Album: Greatest Hits Disc One: 1991-2001

Alternative Girlfriend Lyrics

You're in an all-girl band

 Your futon's second hand

 Your parents understand, but you don't care

 I have a job in a shop

 I'm an undercover cop

 I make sure the customers aren't thieves

 

 Old at being young

 Young at being old

 Everything's on hold within our evolution

 

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 You're my alternative girlfriend

 I love you and now you cannot pretend

 There's nothing left that won't cross over

 

 Last night we slept on the lawn

 You woke up and I was gone

 Back to the dream I dream to leave

 My life with her is a bore

 A worn-out metaphor

 No more surprises up its sleeve

 

 We're old at being young, young at being old

 Everything's been sold to others' revolutions

 

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 You live above your dad's four-car garage

 With your vinyl and imaginary entourage

 If I pull up in a U-Haul, pack up quick

 So we can get out of this town, 'cause it makes me sick

 

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