Come Close To Me [Not Too Close] lyrics

I'm all out of tickets, I've no second chances

I had too much wine and too many slow dances

You're the picture of youth and I’m no spring chicken

But here we are kissing the plot it does thicken

Two Midwesterners in the big city

We're both of us living the dream, what a pity

That we can't just run away to Lisbon or Paris

Would traveling overseas thrill us or scare us

Why does my mind gallop twelve steps ahead of me

Like is there another man you want instead of me

I'm playing at envy to fill up the space

And distract from the things I don't want to face

Come close to me

Not too close

I'm leaving here

Tomorrow

Your beauty it frightens me and also excites me

I want to fall into you do lots of drugs with you

Walk around Chinatown and act like it's China

Forget about everything but your green eyes and I'm

Not to be trusted in these grave matters

In love I am mad as the maddest of hatters

No this isn't love but it surely is something

A nightmare in waiting or maybe a fun thing

Come close to me

Not too close

I'm leaving here

Tomorrow

California is calling me, I have to answer

I told her I'd be back in mid-September

I don't have any pets no son no daughter

But I have a garden, my flowers need water

I can't bear the winters, my blood is too thin for them

Living out west has made me a weaker man

But also a healthy one, I'm still an optimist

I'm a songwriter and sometimes a solipsist

I worry I'm too used to living alone

And when I am sad I don't pick up the phone

I lick my wounds quiet like the lion I am

If you've a better suggestion I don't give a damn

Just let me be and let me see you

Those times when you most would like to be you

And I'll do the same, masks firmly affixed

We'll cut out everything between and betwixt

Come close to me

Not too close

I'm leaving here

Tomorrow

I'm not a prophet, I've no crystal ball

Late summer is written but there's always the fall

When you come out west a few leaves will be falling

We'll hit the beach and drive up Mulholland

Who the hell are you and how did we get here

So quickly, so rashly, I daresay it's like we're

Two rocket ships headed straight for the moon

It can't be healthy to be flying this soon

Will Ally regret ever introducing us or

Will she want credit for exec producing us

What kind of a movie will this one be

Wait, do I have a problem with reality

I'm saying too much, I hope you don't hate me

But if I were you would I want to date me

I can't answer that, I've no perspective

I'm half self-aware and far from objective

Come close to me

Not too close

I'm leaving here

Tomorrow