The Exchange #1
From "The Muse Tree (Demos)"
Julean and the Rai (as Julian Rai)
Copyright 2003 Julian D. Rai (BMI)

VERSE I
Could we retain
The student we exchanged?
And you can keep the one from our school --
Please let me explain

She followed me
She came down to my show
Dark haired, and stared me down
She talked first, just so you know.

VERSE II
And then later on
At the sleepover and such
With just one little touch
(We really didn't sleep that much)

And then it all came down
The kissing on the lips
All hands and pockets and hips
But there's one more thing we missed

VERSE II
So I beg you please
Please please please
Don't send her home
I mean it seems a little wrong
Not to be when nature calls

You're a good man, I can tell
Hey -- that's a nice suit
You know, I think it really looks good on you
I was told you were the man to talk to.

PRECHORUS
I don't like to sound
Like the boy who falls
But I stumble down the stairs
Every time she calls
There's a feeling in my chest
Like a lizard, who crawls
I can't eat, can't sleep
Can't think at all

Gonna' meet her downtown
At the coffeehouse
Stay still for a minute
Then we'll both sneak out
Hide out in the deepest, dark corners
Of our town

(Did you do it? Did you do it)
No I didn't but I tried...

Honestly, I was the one
Who was taken out
I didn't know what this whole
Girl thing was about
Which is why I'm sitting here
In your office, now
I'm still a little freaked out
But I gotta' find out, so

CHORUS
Please
Please could we retain
The student we exchanged?
And you can keep the one from our school ...
... we didn't like her, anyway.

BRIDGE
I can't picture her just leavin';
And me afterward, just breathin' in
The scent of her, just lingerin'
Well I just can't standing for the shoe to fall
You'd better give me something, or it's nothing at all!

PRECHORUS
I don't like to sound
Like the boy who falls
But I stumble down the stairs
Every time she calls
There's a feeling in my chest
Like a lizard, who crawls
I can't eat, can't sleep
Can't think at all

Gonna' meet her downtown
At the coffeehouse
Stay still for a minute
Then we'll both sneak out
Hide out in the deepest, dark corners
Of our town

(Did you do it? Did you do it)
No I didn't but I tried...

Honestly, I was the one
Who was taken out
I didn't know what this whole
Girl thing was about
Which is why I'm sitting here
In your office, now
I'm still a little freaked out
But I gotta' find out, so

CHORUS
Please
Please could we retain
The student we exchanged?
And you can keep the one from our school ...
... nobody liked her much, anyway.

Could we retain
The student we exchanged?
And you can keep the one from our school...
We did't like her, anyway.

And then it all came down.



Lyrics and music copyright 1995, 1996, 2003 Julian D. Rai (BMI), All Rights Reserved.