Badger de Paw

["When we were recording the first record, I was living in the Hotel Edgewater in Madison, and I was losing my mind; they put my dog to sleep. I spent Thanksgiving with the blue plate special and just crazy, crazy -- watching Rush Limbaugh and Saved By The Bell and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Alice took a plane to Chicago and came up to see me and it felt like an oasis of just quiet sanity that was so nice, but of course it didn't last and the bus that I put her on when she left was the Badger bus line."]

I took you down to the station
And I bought your ticket
Lord, I hate to see you go

And as you walk away
Please don't turn around, 'cause
I know you'd hate to see me cry
But I put you on that bus
And as it pulls away
You know I'd really rather be...

Oh, anywhere but here
Nowhere else but here
Anywhere but here
I wish I could take you there, now

Sit around the hotel room
We're playing cards for nickels
It should always be this way
But I'm just a man
And you're a bit too crazy
And being together's always hard
So I put you on that bus
But as it pulls away
You know I'd really rather be...

Oh, anywhere but here
Nowhere else but here
Anywhere but here
I wish I could take you there, now
'Cause I sure as hell don't wanna be here
Oh, now that you're gone
Oh, now that you're gone
Oh, now that you're gone

So now you're gone
And it's my fault
And now that you're gone
I just had this thought
That I can hardly wait to see you
I can hardly wait to be...
Oh, anywhere but here

But I'm just a man
And you're a bit too crazy
And being together is always hard
Lord knows I'd rather be...

Oh, anywhere but here
Nowhere else but here
Anywhere but here
I wish I could take you there, now
'Cause I sure as hell don't wanna be here
Oh, now that you're gone
Oh, now that you're gone
Oh, now that you're gone
I can hardly wait to see you
I can hardly wait to see you