Written Down

(Verse#1)
Walking through your garden, you showed me your favourite points of view
And something about the flowers’ rigid rows reminded me of you
When you turned to talk about something you had learned that day
You were most surprised to find my lips getting in your way
Random element for the scientific girl
Random element screwing up her world

(Chorus)
I’m not written down
No instruction manual from my neck is hanging round

(Verse#2)
Some parts of growing up you zoomed past and others you seemed to miss
Like when I showed you how to open up your mouth when you go for a kiss
A strange mixture of child and woman who is prematurely old
Some things of life are better off for not being under control
So you’d better know what drives us to sin
Is more than just reaction to phenylethylamine

(Chorus)

(Verse #3)
You told me it was over when we stood by some unnoticed grave
Because your textbook said this was no way for lovers to behave
You said, "This relationship did not go according to plan."
For all your education, there’s still one thing you don’t understand
A human being cannot be understood by
A complex set of symbols and formulae

- Music and lyrics by Dominic von Riedemann, copyright 1997 Aliens Ate My Buick Music. All rights reserved.

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