I Want To Be The Boy...

Album: Elephant

I want to be the boy that warms your mother's heart

I'm so scared to take you away

I tried to win her over right from the start

But something always got in the way

We've been sitting in your backyard for hours

While my mother baked a little cake for you

But she won't even come out and say hi

And even dreaded when you said goodbye

What kind of joke should

I lay on her now?

What kind of cartwheels do

I have to pull?

Just to make her notice that

I'm around

I'm inclined to go finish high school

Well nothing

I come up with seems to work

It feels like everything

I say is a lie

I'm afraid to even open my eyes

And never have a felt like such a jerk

Because I really don't want her to judge me

And then, and only then she will love me

I want to her really know who

I am Well at least that was the plan

If ever a boy needed a holiday

If ever a girl needed someone to hold

I just hope

I don't act the same way

By the time that

I get old

I never said

I was the heir to a fortune

I never claimed to have any looks

But these kind of things must be important

Because somebody ripped out my page

In your telephone book

I want to warm her heart