Ani Difranco

The answer came like a shot in the back
While you were running from your lesson
Which might explain why years later all you could remember was the terror of the question.
Plus, you werent listening hard
You were stockpiling canned goods and making a bomb shelter of our basement.
And I cant believe you let the moral go by while you were soaking in the product placement.
And where was your conscience?
Where was your consciousness?
And where did you put all those letters that you wrote to yourself but could not address?
Yeah, Im a good kisser, and youre a fast learner
And that kind of thing could float us for a pretty long time.
And then one day, youd realized youve memorized my phone number
And youll call it and find its a disconnected line.
Cuz I got tossed out the window of loves el camino
And I shattered into a shower of sparks on the curb.
You were smoking me werent you between your yellow fingers
You just inhaled and exhaled without saying a word.
Where was your conscience?
Where was your consciousness?