You Got to Me

To celebrate undying faith

We're gathered here like drifted wrecks

For a late September wedding

October breathing down our necks

And I knew this town in another time

I knew this town a younger man

With the world in my hip pocket

And a subway token in my hand...

You got to me

And they got candle light and a reggae band

Champagne by the bucket load

Limos lined up down the curb

To take us where we need to go

And I need to go somewhere I've been

To find the place I lost the trail

Way back then, so long ago

I don't suppose you even know you got to me

Brought all this empty down on top of me

You got to me

We danced between the snowflakes falling

Tripping on the cobblestones

And the trolley tracks, we had it all then

Christmas break, your room mates gone

We stoked the fire and let it burn

Til the embers glowed in the morning light

Trust in the tangle of skin on skin

I've not known quite that feeling since you got to me

Brought all this empty' down on top of me

I didn't know thar we were not to be

But I know a thing or two now

The wedding party's raging yet

How the old and desperate misbehave

The limo smells like cocaine sweat

Cheap perfume and aftershave

It's gotta be one of these row house doors

I knew the number long ago

I'll step out on the curb

And tell the driver "just go on and go"

And you got to me

Brought all this empty down on top of me

I didn't know know that we were not to be

But I know a thing or two now

The paper boy wants a smoke

Leans his bike against a tree

And he's tired and cold and broke

And he don't know what to make of me

Standing here in my three piece suit

Standing here just like I am

With my vest unbuttoned and my necktie loose

Impervious to all abuse

You got to me

Brought all this empty down on top of me

Off on a thousand dollar odyssey

And I know a thing or two now