Alibi

Alibi - The Mountain Goats

Written by：John Darnielle

I got off work just past eleven

Laid one finger to the breeze

You can almost taste the action

On nights like these

Trees were bending in the wind

You were forty miles away

And I was headed in your direction

I've been waiting all day I've been waiting all day

Moon over west covina

Was huge and white

And I was like a patient on a table

Headed for the light

Lean toward the center divider

Feel the wind in my hair

Keep a light up in your window

I'm gonna be right there

I'm gonna be right there

With a gleam in my eye

And an almost

Airtight

Alibi

Down by the chemistry building

I found a quiet place to park

And I made my way down

The street toward your place

Stepping lightly in the dark

Climbed the steps up to your door way

Like a man prepared

To jump under neath a train

It's real warm outside tonight

Maybe tommorow it rains

Maybe tommorow it rains

Inside your room we shut the window

And we turned on a fan

And we lay there together

In the darkness

I can keep a secret if you can

Finishing one another's sentences

Like a pair of identical twins

Your boyfriend's out of town

Until tuesday

And nobody saw me come in

Nobody saw me come in

With a gleam in my eye

And an almost

Airtight

Alibi