Nothing Like - Shawn Colvin

Four blocks up and two streets down

I went back to my old hometown

Like a kid I ran and hid on cue

For that’s when times were really sad

Winter there was really bad

And we all just froze but for a chosen few

Did you ever see someone you knew

Holding fast and staying strong and true

And they were nothing like you?

Truth to tell and time to burn

I hit the wall at every turn

The ceiling cracked in half and I just flew

And poetry is what I heard

I was hanging onto every word

I was a lover for the world to woo

And I have seen the top of Mt. Ventoux

I have seen a miracle or two

And they’re nothing like you

You’ve been waiting for awhile

I can tell

Off my head and on the fence

Maybe there’s no accidents

Anyway I’d say I have come to

So fool me once that might be fun

Fool me twice, well, that’s been done

You can fool me everyday, I won’t say «Boo»

I believe I have pulled a major coup

I believe I have boarded up the zoo

I believe I have dropped the other shoe

And there’s nothing like you