Running Around Asking

I went running around asking everybody I know

I already asked my mother and the woman who lives next door

I've been running around asking for so long

And I wanted to ask my grandmother, but I couldn't get past the weather

But it was good to sit together on her couch of seafoam green

All her secrets safe without me

And I called up a friend who lives very far away

I took up all her time in asking, but she didn't know what to say

I said I wouldn't keep her and I set down the phone

Whined from the receiver, the muffled dial tone

And you were outside smoking, standing out in the snow

I've been running around asking like I don't already know