Design your life
To live as if you're in a movie
And after three hours
Anyone is going to think
It's gone on too long
You're wondering why
I talk to you as if you knew me
But what would years of wrong impressions
Do besides distract you from
What should have been me
Maybe we'd better leave the past alone
I've had lovers and connections of my own
Waiting to be overthrown
By anyone
Do you truly believe it's all arranged
For us to get under Photoshop and change
For approval of a stranger?
Do you doubt me?
You've only heard good things about me
I'm wanting this
To be New York and we are Nico
And Jackson Browne, and
With our tambourine and
Folk guitar, no city's
Hard enough
To drive us into desperation
Or make us doubt the strength
We get from just each other
Rolling off the factory floor
Maybe we'd better leave the past alone
I've had lovers and connections of my own
Waiting to be overthrown
By anyone
Do you truly believe it's all arranged
For us to get under Photoshop and change
For approval of a stranger?
Do you doubt me?
You've only heard good things about me
I really shouldn't tell my problems to a stranger
And now I'm hoping, since I've told you,
There's still a chance to hold you
Maybe we'd better leave the past alone
I've had lovers and connections of my own
Waiting to be overthrown
By anyone
Do you truly believe it's all arranged
For us to get under Photoshop and change
For approval of a stranger?
Do you doubt me?
You've only heard good things about me