Deirdre Flint - Caroline Back to Me lyrics

Well my first twelve years went on this way My best friend lived two blocks away And from when we met, I guess you could say We never were apart My whole world there on her lawn We grew closer as the years wore on And wore cheap tin lockets from Taiwan Two halves of a matching heart Late bloomers who didn't give a damn We played jacks and rope and kick the can While the other girls had left them long ago Well my thirteenth summer things got strange She went to camp she came home changed She had put aside those childish ways Into things I didn't know And a new friend from camp lived out this way She'd be there when I would come to play And a girl knows when she's in the way But I couldn't let it go And I prayed, Please God, please Let that new girl move or get some weird disease I just want things back the way they used to be Two's sublime and three's a crowd Looks like I am the odd one out Oh please bring Caroline back to me Well that fall we started Junior High No best friend with me at my side And those halls they ache a mile wide When you're walking them alone And I had other friends it's true But they couldn't hold a candle to The Caroline that I once knew And it cut me to the bone I called one night to say Love Boat's on Why don't you come here what did I do wrong? She mumbled some excuse And hung up the phone And I prayed, Please God, please I don't ask for much I have simple needs I just want things back the way they used to be Two's sublime and three's a crowd Looks like I am the odd one out Oh please bring Caroline back to me Well I've always been the best-friend type It takes one good friend to fill my life And I know there's those who'd be surprised To think of me that way Cause it's two years here and I'm history Every farewell party's thrown for me I'm a fond sigh in a memory I'm the one who wouldn't stay I wonder if that thirteenth summer lingers on my mind If you do the leaving first, you don't get left behind And I prayed, Please God, please Can't you see me down here on my knees I just want things back the way they used to be Two's sublime and three's a crowd Looks like I am the odd one out Oh please bring Caroline back to me