[Verse 1]
Instead of a novella
Instead of a boombox held up high
Outside your brother's house in Pennsylvania
[Verse 2]
I will do it this way so as
Not to completely overwhelm
You for the third week of my gut running
[Refrain]
How many times did you ask me?
How many times did you ask me?
How many times do you have to ask me
To chill and take things down before I will accept?
[Verse 3]
I love how I would alternate between
Demand all my plans with you turn around
Take you, love, and twirl you, love, in my knees
[Pre-Chorus]
And we could have been such good friends
And I know now that's what you needed
Do you know who that makes me?
[Chorus]
That makes me Liz Phair's Johnny
No one wants to be Johnny
That makes me Liz Phair's Johnny
Johnny's me, Johnny's me
Johnny's me
[Verse 4]
Can you see bright panic
To the left of the moon when the stars are clear?
And bright in the mountain sky, when it is cold there?
[Verse 5]
I would give you every coat I own if you
Could just please let it go, I know
I know I'm running 'round like a drunken sailor
[Refrain]
How many times did you ask me?
How many times did you ask me?
How many times do you have to ask me
To chill and take things down before I will accept?
[Verse 6]
Oh, my fuzzed-out brain could not comprehend
The fact that you were sad, my friend
It didn't jive with the story I was creating
[Pre-Chorus]
And we could have been such good friends
And I know now that's what you needed
Do you know who that makes me?
[Chorus]
That makes me Liz Phair's Johnny
No one wants to be Johnny
That makes me Liz Phair's Johnny
Johnny's me, Johnny's me
That makes me Liz Phair's Johnny
No one wants to be Johnny
That makes me Liz Phair's Johnny
Johnny's me, Johnny's me
Johnny's me
[Outro]
Johnny's me, Johnny's me