My Imperfect Girl

Appears on the album The First 20 Minutes
©1997 There's Been A Publishing, ASCAP

My imperfect girl
Right in front of me
How could I have ever known?
I just didn't see.
I must have looked away
At just the perfect time.
You asked me what day it was?
I said I was fine.

What a summer, what a heat,
When the snow was 50 feet.
You and I would go outside;
Running, gasping from the tide.
Lying on the over pass,
You could watch the stars go past.
Even this will never last.
Just the subtle flinch.

Just the smallest flaw
Will far out weigh the better times
In ways you never saw.
At 50 cents a cup,
In blue and marble Greek.
Take my coffee like my friends.
As bitter as they're weak.

Even if you hesitate.
Cause you think it's far too late.
Still, you'ld always have to think
I was not your missing link.
Even if you settle down;
Move into a better town.
You will never settle down.

My imperfect girl
How I Know you tried.
Never are you so in love
As when the love has died.
My imperfect mate
Has a silver sting.
Perfect love will far out last.
Almost anything.