Fountains Of Wayne

I'm a very busy man
So please don't waste my time kid
(Time kid)
Don't tell me what you're gonna do or what you wanna do

Tell me what you already did
(Tell me what you already did)
(What you already did, what you already did)
Tell me what you already did
(Tell me what you already did)
(What you already did, what you already did)

Tell me to hear about your plans
Just give me the bottom line kid
(Line kid)
Don't tell me what you could've done or what you should've done

Tell me what you already did
(Tell me what you already did)
(What you already did, what you already did)
Tell me what you already did
(Tell me what you already did)
(What you already did, what you already did)

I need results, I need straight answers
If I wanna fancy fool, look I would've hired a dancer, oh

I don't think you understand
A break like this is hard to find kid
(Find kid)
Don't tell me what you're gonna do or what you wanna do

Tell me what you already did
(Tell me what you already did)
(What you already did, what you already did)
Tell me what you already did
(Tell me what you already did)
(What you already did, what you already did)

Tell me what you already did
(Tell me what you already did)
(What you already did, what you already did)
Tell me what you already did
(Tell me what you already did)
(What you already did, what you already did)
Tell me what you already did

He walks alone under the big city lights
He always knows just when the time is right
He never shows what he's thinking
He keeps it inside
Because he's too cool for school

He comes alive when the sun goes down
He gets it right
You know he's always down
He's got one eye open and his ear to the ground
An he's too cool for school

He's an operator
He's a real player
And if you mess with him
You know you'll never win
He's an instigator
Enemy eliminator
And when he knocks you better
You better let him in

He's got his own way of getting things done
He's always looking out for number one
Don't try to beat him 'cause he's already won
An he's too cool for school

He's an operator
He's a real player
And if you mess with him
You know you'll never win
He's an instigator
Enemy eliminator
And when he knocks you better
You better let him in

He walks alone under the big city lights
He always knows just when the time is right
He never shows what he's thinking
He keeps it inside
Because he's too cool for school
Because he's too cool for school
Because he's too cool for school

Roq critic Kent Tucke believes that we're in the midst of a new creative flowering of Pop-Roq

Catchy guitar based music

He's leading off with FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE



Hip-Hop, Country Music, and Post-Grunge Squall can take a partial summer vacation.

I'm applying some # 45 sunblock and putting up a sign saying "gone fishing for power-pop"

I pick her up outside the station
She's telling me about her spring vacation
She's not leaving much to the imagination
She's giving me way too much information

Maureen
You don't know what you do to me
I know you won't be true to me
The least that you can do for me
Is keep it to yourself
I'm so sorry I don't mean to shout
It's just that I can do without
The details of your days and nights and your thoughts and dreams
Maureen, Maureen, Maureen, Maureen, Maureen

Do you know what I mean
Do you know what I mean
Do you know what I mean

She calls me up at ten past midnight
'Cause she and some guy just had some big fight
And I say "well maybe he's just not all that bright"
She tells me it's not his brain that she likes

M-M-M-M-M-Maureen
You don't know what you do to me
I know you won't be true to me
The least that you can do for me
Is keep it to yourself
I'm so sorry I don't mean to shout
But really I can do without
The details of your days and nights and your thoughts and dreams
Maureen, Maureen, Maureen, Maureen

I know you think I'm just a friend
But can we please just put an end
To all the graphic imagery that you insist on feeding me
I can't accept I'm not the one
Who's getting to have all the fun
Maybe that's what friends are for
But I just can't take it any more

M-M-M-M-M-Maureen
You don't know what you do to me
I know you won't be true to me
The least that you can do for me
Is keep it to yourself
I'm so sorry I don't mean to shout
But really I can do without
The details of your days and nights and your thoughts and dreams
Can we keep it right
Can we keep it clean
Maureen, Maureen, Maureen, Maureen, Maureen

I'm going coast to coast
I'm going nationwide
I got my hand on the trigger
Got my girl by my side
I got the looks that kill
I got a license to love
I got a German shepherd
And his name is Doug

I'm heading for the sun
I'm gonna become

A California sex lawyer
Oh yeah
A California sex lawyer
Oh yeah
A California sex lawyer
Oh yeah
Well, it's not fair, but baby, I don't care

I got big ideas
I got backup plans
I got the cha-cha-charisma
Got the sleight of hand
I'm gonna do some damage
Gonna bust some heads
I'm gonna go the distance
Then I'm going to bed

I'm heading for the sun
I'm gonna become

A California sex lawyer
Oh yeah
A California sex lawyer
Oh yeah
A California sex lawyer
Oh yeah
Well, it's not fair, but baby, I don't care

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I'm heading for the sun
I'm gonna become

A California sex lawyer
Oh yeah
A California sex lawyer
Oh yeah
A California sex lawyer
Oh yeah
Well, it's not fair
It's not fair
It's not fair, but baby, I don't care

Bah bah bah bah bah da da da da
Bah bah bah da da da
Bah bah bah bah bah da da da da
Bah bah bah da da da

Welcome friends to Janice's Party
The kind that others have tried
Smoking is permitted inside

We have faith in Janice's Party
With friends who can not sing
And I can hear the doorbell ring

Well I came this far
Now I know that I won't sleep well tonite
Drunk out of my mind
Janice's party's alright, alright

Bah bah bah bah bah da da da da
Bah bah bah da da da
Bah da da da da da da

Here's a chip a vodka martini
Someone call me a car
I'll be underneath the bar

Well I came this far
Now I know that I won't sleep well tonite
Drunk out of my mind
Janice's party's alright, alright

<i>[break]</i>

Well I came this far
Now I know that I won't sleep well tonite
Drunk out of my mind
Janice's party's alright, alright

Gold sun-glasses and a wandering eye
He looks like he's wearing a cheap disguise
But it's real
Don't you know how it feels

He goes to work and he scares the hell
Out of all the girls down in Oradell
What a deal
Don't you know how it feels

Lay it down, lay it down
You've got to cover a lot of ground
Lay it down, lay it down
Karpet King
Karpet King

Half a drink and he's out of his head
He puts the boys back into their beds
And he's free
That's the way it should be

Out every night with the girl of his dreams
He knows it'll never be quite what it seems
To be
Don't you want hell to be

Lay it down, lay it down
You've got to cover a lot of ground
Lay it down, lay it down
Karpet King

Lay it down, lay it down, lay it down
Lay it down, lay it down, lay it down
Lay it down, lay it down, lay it down

Lay it down, lay it down, lay it down
Lay it down, lay it down, lay it down
Lay it down, lay it down, lay it down

<i>[repeat and fade]</i>

She used to love me
She don't love me no more
I stepped over the line
Too many times
And she stepped out the door

Well Baby I've Changed
Won't you come back home
'Cause I've changed my wicked ways
And I'll never throw your mail away
And I won't tell you that your hair looks grey
And I'll let you listen to Sugar Ray
And I'll say I love you every day
'Cause it's true
Baby I do

Now I hope and I pray
I can turn this mess around
And I search for a way
To convince you to stay
And not just skip town

'Cause Baby I've Changed
Won't you come back home
'Cause I've changed my wicked ways
And I'll put away my socks and shoes
If the lights go out I'll change the fuse
And I'll let you listen to the blues
And I'll say I love you
Just because it's true
Baby I do
Baby I do
Baby I do

This morning under awaking glow
The sun filled our room like December snow
Like morning through an old window
There's a place in your head I will always know
To the same world born two of a kind
If it?s on your mind, it'll be on mine ?cause
I know you well
Like the soil in the ground
Grass grown in the shadow of a blow
And if the blow will never toll
You and me grow old
I hope we?ll live to tell
How you know I know you knew I know you well
Down under, beneath the softened skin
Where the words we whisper sink in
It?s no wonder the way the words still ring
Sure as sin, it?s not a secret thing
To the same world born two of a kind
If it?s on your mind, it'll be on mine ?cause
I know you well
Like the soil in the ground
Grass grown in the shadow of a blow
And if the blow will never toll
You and me grow old
I hope we?ll live to tell
How you know I know you knew I know new york 1991
Here in the same room for so long
Out of the cold November
Still as a passport picture
Still as a passport picture
To the same world born two of a kind
If it?s on your mind, it'll be on mine ?cause
I know you well
Like the soil in the ground
Grass grown in the shadow of a blow
And if the blow will never toll
You and me grow old
I hope we?ll live to tell
How you know I know you knew I know you well

If you love me. why do you hurt me
Come on baby. don't desert me
I was there when you were in trouble
Now you're fine but I guess you changed your mind

'Cause you're never satisfied
God only know why I try to please you
You're just never satisfied

I don't mind it when you get angry
I'm not asking for you to beg me
All I want to do is remind you
How many times I put my ass on the line

'Cause you're never satisfied
God only know why I try to please you
You're just never satisfied
You're just never satisfied

You don't care if I stuck with you
Covered for you, put up with you
'Cause all you wanna do
Is try your love with somebody new
Ooh

I've been wasting my time

'Cause you're never satisfied
God only know why I try to please you
You're just never satisfied
You're just never satisfied
You're just never satisfied

She knows nothing at all about nothing
The moment I saw her was something I found alarming
That certain nothing behind her eyes

TV, she finds intoxicating
Shows about cops and dating
She has a soft spot
For cops who are robots

And I don't know where this is going
But I've got a feeling
I'll do the driving from now on

Sometimes we stare at the stars from my roof
She wants to know if they are _fire proof_
I say I guess so, how else can they glow on for so long

We're out, the jukebox plays "Jumping Jack Flash"
She says "I love Johnny Cash, the man in red"
I turn my head and pretend not to hear what she said

And I don't know where this is going
But I've got a feeling
I'll do the driving from now on

And I don't know where this is going
But I've got a feeling
I'll do the driving from now on

Oh whoa
Leave your nightlight on
You don't have far to go

Oh whoa
Leave your nightlight on
You don't have far to go

Out the door, down the hall
That is all
Down the hall, down the stairs
Pretty soon you'll be there

Oh whoa
Leave your nightlight on
You don't have far to go

Oh whoa
Leave your nightlight on
You don't have far to go

Down the stairs
Take your time, don't be scared
You'll be fine, nothing's changed
In the dark it's all the same

<i>[VERSE 1]</i>
On this day, I'm walking a fine line
Imagining my minds fine, ok
Tougher than nylon
Safe as a house on the way

<i>[CHORUS 1]</i>
My little darling
Don't you cry, it makes you look older
C'mon now hey, don't you be down
I want you around
I want you around
I want you arooooouuunnnnddd

<i>[VERSE 2]</i>
Here's my plan, I'm losing the halo
It's time to lay low man, some plan
Come the high water
I'll be your drowning man

<i>[CHORUS 2]</i>
My little darling
Don't you cry, it makes you look older
C'mon now hey, don't you be down
I want you around
I want you around
I want you arooooouuunnnnddd
I want you around
I want you arooooouuunnnnddd

<i>[BRIDGE]</i>
While I'm doing battle with myself and me
I'm doing battle with gravity
and I can't face myself alone
I can't bear to be alone with me

Hey don't you be down
I want you around
I want you around
I want you arooooouuunnnnddd

<i>[REPEAT TO FADE]</i>

Trains and boats and planes are passing by
They mean a trip to Paris or Rome
To someone else, but not for me
The trains and boats and planes
Took you away
Away from me

We were so in love, and high above
We had a star to wish upon
Wish and dreams come true, but not for me
The trains and the boats and planes
Took you away
Away from me

You are from another part of the world
You had to go back awhile and then
You said you soon would return again
I'm waiting here like I promised to
I'm waiting here, but where are you?

Trains and boats and planes took you away
But every time I see them I pray
And if my prayers can cross the sea
The trains and the boats and planes
Will bring you back
Back home to me

Places
We move in and out of watching
Faces
Float around the hotel lobby like
Fishes
They're all blowing air
We know it must mean something
But we just stare

We stood
On Primrose Hill like statues we were
So good
Walked along the locks and into
Camden
Tried on silver shoes
And orange plastic jackets

Places
We move in and out of fast as
Hail stones
Make jokes hey isn't that the the word for our
Tombstones
So that everyone will know
When they're out one afternoon
Stop to read the stones

Midnight, on the water
I saw the ocean's daughter
Walking on a wave's chicane
Staring as she called my name

And I can't get it out of my head
No, I can't get it out of my head
Now my old world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head

Breakdown on the shoreline
Can't move, it's an ebbtide
Morning, don't get here tonight
Searching for her silver light

And I can't get it out of my head
No, I can't get it out of my head
Now my old world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head

Bank job in the city
Robin Hood and William Tell
And Ivanhoe and Lancelot
They don't envy me
Sitting 'til the sun goes down
In dreams the world keeps going 'round and 'round

And I can't get it out of my head
No, I can't get it out of my head
Now my old world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head

Spoken by Claudia Marshall at 90.7 WFUN-FM with Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood

CM: Adam and Chris of Fountains of Wayne are with me here, uh, on City Folks Morning in, uh, Studio A...WITH GUITARS! So, would you like to play a song for me?
AS or CC: (very deadpan) no...
CM: WELL, THAT WOULD KIND OF BRING THINGS TO A SCREECHING HALT, NOW, WOULDN'T IT?
(Drum lead-in to 'The Girl I can't Forget' (Studio Version)

Well, she picked me up in a German car
And she took me out to an Irish bar
Where I drank some beer in a plastic cup
'Til I had some trouble standing up
And then she drove downtown to a strobe-lit space
Where all the guys wore chains and the thumping bass
Was so intense I could barely feel my face
Then I think I asked her back to my place

But that's all I recall
And when I woke up in the hall
I was alone and softly groaning
And I lost my keys, and I lost my phone, and
I wondered what I did or said
That I might soon regret
It was the night I can't remember
With the girl I can't forget

Well, I was reeling, watching the ceiling spin
The next evening when my friends walked in
And when I asked them if they knew where I'd been
They didn't speak at first; they only grinned
You see, I'm not the type to get in fights
But that might not have been the case last night
Because they heard that I had a word or two
With the man who asked, "Is she with you?"

And if I took it the wrong way
I guess that's not for me to say
Though it seems I may have slipped up
When I offered him some grooming tips
But at least that helps explain
The cuts and bruises on my head
From the night I can't remember
With the girl I can't forget

And it's all coming back now
Don't know how to react now
Guess I'll let it go
I'm not so sure I want to know

Well, I was back at work at 9:15
When a message popped up on my screen
It said, "Pick me up at 8:45
And we can give it one more try"

And now that I'm with her
The whole thing seems a bit absurd
Though she never fails to tell the tale
Of the time she had to post my bail
And for giving me a second chance
I'm forever in her debt
Since the night I can't remember
She's the girl
I will never forget

Oh baby baby, how was I supposed to know
That something wasn't right here
Oh baby baby, I shouldn't have let you go
And now you're out of sight, yeah

Show me how you want it to be
Tell me baby cuz I need to know, because
My loneliness is killin' me
I must confess I still believe
When I'm not with you I lose my mind
Give me a sign, hit me baby one more time

Oh baby baby, the reason I breathe is you
Girl you've got me blinded
Oh pretty baby, there's nothin' that I wouldn't do
It's not the way I planned it

Show me how you want it to be
Tell me baby 'cause I need to know, because
My loneliness is killin me
I must confess I still believe
When I'm not with you I lose my mind
Give me a sign, hit me baby one more time

Oh baby baby
Oh baby baby

Oh baby baby, how was I supposed to know
Oh pretty baby, I shouldn't have let you go
Now I must confess
That my loneliness
Is killin me now
Don't you know I still believe
That you will be here
And give me a sign
Hit me baby one more time

My loneliness is killin' me
I must confess I still believe
When I'm not with you I lose my mind
Give me a sign, hit me baby one more time

Slim and tall behind me
Spinnin' me off of my feet
Headin' for the D
We're taking our act to the street
Roll around the city
Leavin' our tracks on the ground
Elevator up
Baby, I don't wanna come down

Hangin' with the sinners
The undesirable crowd
Tokin' on the train
Playin' our radio loud
Got a sweet need for speed that doesn't know no bounds
Elevator up
Baby, I don't wanna come down

Spent a little time in the back of my mind
Now it may be time to pay up and go
I've done it
I've had it
I'm ready for bed
Anywhere at all
Any way the wind blows

Say hello to Molly
She's got a sister as well
Such a pleasant girl
As far as your family can tell
Hold the camera steady
Turn the shutter speed way down
Elevator up
Baby, I don't wanna come down

Spent a little time in the back of my mind
Now it may be time to pay up and go
I've done it
I've had it
I'm ready for bed
Anywhere at all
Any way the wind blows

Spent a little time in the back of my mind
Now it may be time to pay up and go
I've done it
I've had it
I'm ready for bed
Anywhere at all
Any way the wind blows
(Any way the wind blows)
Any way the wind blows
(Any way the wind blows)
Any way the wind blows
(Any way the wind blows)
Any way the wind blows
(Any way the wind blows)