The Original Box Lyrics

Three lonely husbands killing time in a bar on the side of a hill

Are arguing fine points of history politics past lovers and who should we kill?

While a stranger walks in with a fresh warrantee

And he orders the house drinks and shots

He says they're refusing to fix my computer for free

I didn't save the original box

That's not how it looked when you bought it

That's not how it came off the shelf

And it's not hard to tell you didn't treat it so well

You were far too concerned with yourself

It's been used and abused I believe you're confused

You just gave me a sack full of rocks

You shouldn't try to return what you didn't quite earn

If you didn't save the original box

It sent my mind into a daydream of nightmares

that I'd buried a long time ago

A half dizzy girl with a strawberry curl

And a love that we couldn't quite grow

I remember the day that she went on her way

With my color TV and her socks

I was too cold to sing I tried returning the ring

But I hadn't saved the original box

That's not how it looked when you bought it

That's not how it came off the shelf

And it's not hard to tell you didn't treat it so well

You were far too concerned with yourself

It's been used and abused I believe you're confused

You just gave me a sack full of rocks

You shouldn't try to return what you didn't quite earn

If you didn't save the original box

When I rest in your arms far away from the farms

That I see every morning and night

As I swim in the scent of the love that you've sent

Something comes and then finally goes right

There's a fear in the air that we have to repair

I keep answering but nobody knocks

And no matter what's wrong I can heal with a song

If you've saved the original box

That's not how it looked when you bought it

That's not how it came off the shelf

And it's not hard to tell you didn't treat it so well

You were far too concerned with yourself

It's been used and abused I believe you're confused

You just gave me a sack full of rocks

You shouldn't try to return what you didn't quite earn

If you didn't save the original box