Holly Cole - I Told Him That My Dog Wouldn't Run

I told him that my dog wouldn't run
I told him that I loved someone
Yeah, that's my old car out in the parking lot
I saw him when he first walked in
I thought it was a vision of him
He was looking like where he had been
He was looking kind of fragile

He said I read the Bible everyday
To try to keep the demons at bay
Thank God when the sun goes down
I don't blow away

My friend said, was he always like that
I said yeah, but he was never this bad
I remember us playing for nickels and dimes
Out on the corner
I asked him to marry me once
He told me he couldn't because
This would be all that there was

He said I read the Bible very day
To try to keep the demons at bay
Thank God when the sun goes down
I don't blow away

He was laughing but I didn't get the joke
He was dying to light up a smoke
And I wanted to cry
In the florescent light of the restaurant
So I smiled and I got up to go
I was hoping for a goodbye to hold
But it was kinda like touching a ghost
So I ran when I walked out

Well, he said I read the Bible every day
Just to keep the demons at bay
Thank God when the sun goes down
I don't blow away