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escape key - the girl that's never been lyrics

[verse]
it was sixteen years ago, outside an aging movie show
i was found not knowing where i was that night
not a thing did i possess but an old blue gingham dress
and a faded photograph in black and white
now my memories are quite clear, even if i still can hear
all the shrinks who said some trauma was to blame
light another cigarette, breathe in deep, try to forget
that it’s a photograph of dinah and that alice is my name

[chorus]
save me, save me, i’ve lost my memory
i’m outside the world looking in
save me, save me, i’m lost in the memory
and i’d swear i’m a girl that’s never been

[verse]
now it’s all the life i knew, except i know it can’t be true
i’m not her—there’s no such thing as wonderland
hold a steady job somehow, three months clean and sober now
oh, the ways i tried to get back there again
“try to move on, don’t be sad—” so i placed a personal ad
i asked, why is a raven like a writing desk?
and on the phone, out of the past, so glad he’s found me now at last—
and i’m afraid to go and meet him but i know my answer’s yes

[chorus]
save me, save me, i’ve lost my memory
i’m outside the world looking in
save me, save me, i’m lost in the memory
and i’d swear i’m a girl that’s never been

[bridge]
just another city loner wearing sungl-sses at night
leather jacket, purple turtleneck and blue jeans worn too tight
just a rummie by the jukebox in a casual curious pose
but i don’t know how he knows the things he knows

[verse]
well he sits down with a grin, “why little alice, where’ve you been?
not so little, not so alice, now, are you?”
as he sips my untouched drink, i say “i can’t be who i think!”
he says, “you are, and you’re not, and i am too;
are we figments of our gin? are we long-lost orphaned kin?
or the mad descendants of a writer’s pen?
no one’s sane behind their mask. ask what you really want to ask.”
and i close my eyes and whisper, “can you take me back again?”

[chorus]
save me, save me, i’ve lost my memory
i’m outside the world looking in
save me, save me, i’m lost in the memory
and i’d swear i’m a girl that’s never been

[verse]
“darling alice, so bereft, there’s no back—you never left;
all the rhymes are still there waiting to be sung.”
and he holds up in the air a little picture paper square
slips between my lips and underneath my tongue
“shall i tell you now, miss little, what’s the answer to the riddle
of the raven that you used to send your call?”
he takes the gl-sses off to see, yellow cat’s eyes turn on me, and says
“it’s nothing like a writing desk at all.”

[chorus/outro]
save me, save me, i’ve lost my memory
i’m outside the world looking in
save me, save me, i’m lost in the memory
and i’d swear i’m a girl that’s never been
and he faded, leaving nothing but a grin

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