Song Description

Musically, this is soulful and modern acoustic jazz. Lyrically, it uses ironic humor to explore romantic obsessions with relative strangers.

Lyrics

She works at the health food place
And every time I see her face
I freeze, and everything else, it just becomes a blur

From her curly amber locks
Right down to her Berkenstocks
I try resisting but I can only think of her

Every day I go back in
And I take it on the chin
I try, but I just don?t know what I should say or do

Had to rent a storage shed
For tofu cheese and whole-grain bread
Tomorrow maybe I?ll buy some veggie burgers too

Now I don?t even know where to begin
I?ve got pills to build muscle and pills to be thin
I?ve got pills to be virile and pills to be smart
But where are the pills for my aching heart?

My heart beats like thunder
Whenever I notice her moving closer to me
?Cause she?s right there but I can?t get through the wall

Now and then I wonder
Could she be anything like I dream her to be?
But it makes no difference at all
?Cause I?ve already started to fall
For the girl in the overalls

My friends say ?they?re all the same
Just remember what?s-her-name
The one who worked with the plants at Johnson?s Nurseries

?You didn?t talk ?cause that?s too bold
You just bought trays of marigolds
And daisies, even though flowers only make you sneeze.?

But she?s not like the others I wanted before
Like the beautiful clerk at the lawnmower store
Or the lawyer?s assistant, the cop or the vet
She?s the prettiest lady that I?ve never met

My heart beats like thunder
Whenever I notice her moving closer to me
?Cause she?s right there but I can?t get through the wall

Now and then I wonder
Could she be anything like I dream her to be?
But it makes no difference at all
?Cause I?ve already started to fall
For the girl in the overalls