Day Jobs

Every year we thought we were too old to tour and every year we were a little less wrong.

                Time was you could go to the fair and there

But still, when Joanna woke up singing we are soooooo young it was only half irony:
I was the oldest and I was twenty-five.

                It's OK for the guitarist or something to wear a cowboy hat but not the singer

I invited the whole office to our last show. My boss's husband said, When I was in the men's room I could actually hear your voice, it's really good.

                I think the problem is that we're not really rocking enough           

Every spring with the cherry blossoms, the specter of grad school.

                Heaven forfend/Where are my friends

When did I become everybody's mom, I wondered. Maybe when I married our bassist? From the time I was nineteen I was basically always already married to our bassist.

                The amazing thing about her is she doesn't need a man

I practiced the tricky songs on the subway platform, willing myself to remember the right key. But it was usually the wrong key, so the practice was useless.

                I will always be seventeen

Girls, I want to yell back in time, those were day jobs.