Jealousy - Liz Phair

He’s got a million dollar car

He’s got a thirty-seven year old guitar

He’s got a family who deals heroin

You’re on the edge of your chair and then

You feel it

He’s looking at you

He’s laughing at you

It’s happening

I can’t, I can’t believe it

But it’s here on the pages I’m reading

It’s all I can do to conceal my feelings of jealousy.

jealousy.

I know it’s just a drawer of photographs

They’re ex-girlfriends, I try to remember that

I don’t wanna look, but I’m already hooked on jealousy.

jealousy.

I can’t believe you had a life before me

I can’t believe they let you run around free

Just putting your body wherever it seemed like a good idea

What a good idea

Standing

On the corner

Watching

The ladies

Pass by

Imagining me behind your eyes

And then what did I see?

I saw hips, I saw thighs

I saw secret positions that we never try

I saw jealousy

I saw jealousy

I can’t, I can’t believe it

But it’s here in this place and I see it

It’s all I can do to conceal my feelings of jealousy.

jealousy.

Standing

On the mud flats

Watching

The salmon

Die

Wonder if I’ll ever bury the hatchet inside

Imagining me behind your eyes

And then what did I see?

I saw hips, I saw thighs

I saw secret positions that we never try

I saw jealousy

I saw jealousy

I can’t believe you had a life before me

I can’t believe they let you run around free

Just putting your body wherever it seemed like a good idea

What a good idea