exhausting lover

Ben Folds

I woke up in a truck stop parking lot
A girl in a red white and blue halter top was staring
Thick glasses like mine
And a low bored monotone vocal fry
(I like that)

She said, who s the band on the bus?
What bus?
That one, nerd. The one that you got off of
Oh - Probably no one you ve heard of

Don t know what came over me
As I awkwardly dropped my room key
I said I think that s yours
And three hours later I was banging this verse out

Oh no - head meet floor
I don t wanna do this no more
Every kiss is a jam band solo
Never gonna say YOLO no mo
My mind says no
My body says hell no!
Let this be over
Exhausting lover

Not sure if she couldn t stop?
Or if she wouldn t stop?
As the motel carpet gave me five more raw spots
What s that stabbing my back?
(Ah, that s a wire from her halter top)
There was an hour where her head kept banging
Against the bottom of a table top
I saw my life in a split screen
But life s just one shot

What the hell would I tell my girlfriend?
But the thing is she s not my
girlfriend, anymore
I traded it all for some third degree carpet burn

Oh no - head meet floor
I don t wanna do this no more
Every kiss is a jam band solo
Never gonna say YOLO no mo
My mind says no
My body says hell no!
Let this be over
Exhausting lover

Then she handed me a hot wheels track
I said, girl that s pretty weird
Where did you get that?
She said never mind that
Here nerd beat my ass in the bath like my dad did
When I was a bad kid
I said, nah what s this!
Let me up out of the Hotel Six
And tell me where my pants went
That s when I heard the door breaking
It wasn t housekeeping
It was her boyfriend

Don t know what came over me
Out the door in my boxer briefs
Some dude live tweeted
As I ran half-naked past a Cracker Barrel

Oh no - head meet floor
I don t wanna do this no more
Every kiss is a jam band solo
Never gonna say YOLO no mo
My mind says no
My body says hell no!
Let this be over
Exhausting lover