Running Around Asking - The Weather Station

I went running around asking everybody I know

I already asked my mother and the woman who lives next door

I’ve been running around asking for so long

I wanted to ask my grandmother, but I couldn’t get past the weather

But it was good to sit together, on her couch of seafoam green

All her secrets safe without me

And I called up a friend who lives very far away

I took up all her time in asking, but she didn’t know what to say

I said I wouldn’t keep her, and I set down the phone

Whined from the receiver the muffled dial tone

You were outside smoking, standing out in the snow

I’ve been running around asking like I don’t already know