Rilo Kiley /// *

Go Ahead

if you want to find yourself

by travelling out west

or if you want to find somebody else

that's better

go ahead

if you want to buy

a brand new fancy automobile

or if you want to build a place

up in coldwater canyon

go ahead

i wish you would

go ahead

if you want to hold your own hand

going up that cliff

or if you want to just hold back

cause you ain't up to it

go ahead

be my guest

go ahead

if you want to hold on

to the first girl that you meet

or if you want to settle down

and plant roses at my feet

go ahead

i wish you would

go ahead

if you want to have

your cake and eat it too

and if you want to have other people

watch you while you eat it

go ahead

be my guest

go ahead

if you want better things

i want you to have them

if you want better things

then i want you to have them

go ahead

i wish you would

go ahead

Rilo Kiley /// Lolita /// *

Does He Love You?

get a real job

keep the wind at your back

and the sun on your face

all the immediate unknowns

are better than knowing this tired and lonely fate

does he love you?

will he hold your tiny face in his hands?

i guess it's spring

i didn't know

it's always seventy-five

with no melting snow

a married man, he visits me

i receive his letters in the mail twice a week

and i think he loves me

and when he leaves her

he's coming out to california

i guess it all worked out

there's a ring on your finger

and the baby's due out

you share a place by the park

and run a shop for antiques downtown

and he loves you

yeah, he loves you

and the two of you will soon become three

and he loves you, even though you

used to say you were flawed if you weren't free

let's not forget ourselves

good friend

you and i were almost dead

and you're better off for leaving

yeah you're better off for leaving

late at night, i get the phone

you're at the shop sobbing all alone

your confession it's coming out

you only married him

you felt your time was running out

but now you love him

and your baby

at last you are complete

but he's distant and you found him

on the phone pleading, saying, 'baby i love you'

'and I'll leave her, and i'm coming out to california'

let's not forget ourselves

good friend

i'm flawed if i'm not free

and your husband will never leave you

he will never leave you for me