I Should Have Known Better - Yo La Tengo

I got in a tussle

With a stranger on the train

His face was familiar

But i couldn’t place the name

It got to be ugly

Threats were made

I hope that no-one who could see

Would be someone who’d know you

I had a small run-in

With a driver and his wife

You might call it road rage

But we got out with our life

Considered nothing

I held my ground

And now that it’s over

I’ve said that there must be

A better way

I keep it in mind

Eight times out of nine

I’m wrong or i’m right

It’s not worth a fight

But what’s hard to define

Makes it tough to decide

You don’t realize

Until after it has begun

Whether this is the one

I probably knew better

I probably knew better

Consider nothing

I held my ground

And now that it’s over

I’ll say that there must be

A better way

I keep it in mind

Eight times out of nine

I’m wrong or i’m right

It’s not worth a fight

But what’s hard to abide

It’s tough to decide

We don’t realize

Until after it has begun

Whether this was the one

I probably knew better

I probably knew better

I probably knew better

I probably knew better