Barenaked Ladies Songs - Enid Lyrics

Barenaked Ladies - Enid

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Album: Gordon
Released: 1992

Enid Lyrics

Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Enid we never really knew each other anyway.

It took me a year to believe it was over,
And it took me two more to get over the loss.
I took a beating when you wrote me those letters,
And every time I remembered the taste of your lip gloss.

Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Maybe we always saw right through each other anyway,
But Enid we never really knew each other anyway.

There were times when I wanted to hurt you,
And there were times when I know that I did.
There were times when I thought I would kill you,
But can you blame me I was only a kid.

Tell me why we never respected each other.
And tell me why I never believed that you were a person too.
I always thought that you fancied my brother.
I may not have liked it, oh but memory is a strange thing, oh, and Enid?
Enid I remember you.

Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Maybe we always saw right through each other anyway,
But Enid we never really knew each other anyway.

It took me a year to believe it was over,
And it took me two more to get over the loss.
I took a beating when I wrote you those letters,
And every time you told me to get lost.

Now it's not fair to say that it's
Cause I was three inches shorter then,
And it's not fair to say that it's 'cause
I was only fifteen years old.
But maybe it's fair to say it was a lack of communication,
I took a phone message, oh and speaking of communication,
Oh, and Enid,
Enid you got a cold.

I can get a job I can pay the phone bills
I can cut the lawn, cut my hair, cut out my cholesterol
I can work overtime I can work in a mine
I can do it all for you,
But I don't want to.

Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Maybe we always saw right through each other anyway,
But Enid we really never knew each other anyway

I can teach you how to dance, how to sing, how to knit,
How to make things that you never ever made before
Enid, I can teach you how to use cookie cutters
To make crazy things out of Play-Doh.

Little houses, little farms, little accessories for your mom,
For your Barbie set, for your friends and your family
Enid, I can teach you how to snowmobile, cross-country ski, snowshoe,
But I don't want to!

Enid we never really knew each other anyway
Enid we never really knew each other anyway
Maybe we always saw right through each other anyway
But Enid we really never knew each other anyway

I took you dancing, paid for your night school.

Writer/s: PAGE, STEVEN / ROBERTSON, ED
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Enid

The band got the title when they were eating in a diner. They found it amusing that they were being served by a waitress named Enid, which is "dine" backwards.

A track from the band's first album, "Enid" was written by Steven Page and Ed Robertson , with Page singing lead. The song is about a guy who is desperately trying to get back together with Enid, his ex-girlfriend. We learn that he was 15 when they split, and now it's a few years later and he's still nowhere near over her. Typical of Barenaked ladies, there is plenty of humor in the song, as this guy's passion is tempered with laziness. He thinks of all the things he can do to get her back (cut his hair, work overtime), but decides it's too much work ("I can do it all for you, but I don't want to).

This is one of the few Barenaked Ladies songs with a horn section, which is credited as "The Jimmy Crack Horns" (they made up goofy names for outside musicians who performed on their tracks). When the band performed the song live, they would sing the horn parts.

An Ontario musician named Lewis Melville played the pedal steel guitar on this track. Melville also appears on recordings by another Canadian band, the Rheostatics.