I went running around asking everybody I know I already asked my mother and the woman who lives next door I've been running around asking for so long And I wanted to ask my grandmother But I couldn't get past the weather But it was good to sit together On her couch of seafoam green All her secrets safe without me And I called up a friend who lives very far away And I took up all her time in asking But she didn't know what to say I said I wouldn't keep her, and I set down the phone Whined from the receiver the muffled dial tone And you were outside smoking, standing out in the snow I've been running around asking like I don't already know