(The) Harvey Danger Database

I wish the words would fail me just for once
      (Just once)
Keep incommunicado
      (Don’t say a word)
Stick to the present tense and come to my senses
      (Come pick me up)
Just like a desperado

We talked for twenty minutes
By the time the party ended, you’d forgotten
      (I was never good with names)
And I’m still thinking about it five years later, oh

You spoke an unfamiliar dialect
      (Comme ça)
Two-and-a-half months sober
Next thing I knew someone had called for the check
      (Check please)
And you were gone before we turned it over

I dreamed we were alone all night in a house made out of beds
and nothing happened
      (You call that a dream?)
I think about it every time I see you
      (Me too)
That’s when I try to remember
there were never any terms we could agree to
      (No, no)
Now, can I please have a moment of your time
      (Can I please have a moment of your time?)
before I have the strength to change my mind?

Sean: On the original, band-released pressing of Little By Little..., the song felt appropriately light on a moody record, but when it came time to re-release on Kill Rock Stars, it began to feel slight; I defend it on the grounds of the vocal interplay between me and Rachel Bowman, and that I always love when Jeff and Aaron switch instruments.^10A