ani difranco wants me    and her want, it keeps her very busy    she doesn't even have time to write me letters    and the ones i sent come back to me    but she backed me up on my last album    and not for credit but for my love    she's in the background singing, i swear it    if you can't hear her, then turn it up       i met her backstage at a concert    i said "you're such a righteous babe to me"    it was such a forrest gump moment    but i never got any royalties    and she's got such a sense of humor    once she even called the police    something about a boy outside her window    then she smiled when she saw that it was me       she said, "we're on our own can you picture it?    you and me baby and we're driving down the highway"    we can't be wrong if you think of it    we illustrate the soundtrack and we're driving down the highway       you know she's got me on her speed dial    she calls when she's hung up on a chord    and it's another industry inside secret that i write most her words    and we always go for coffee    up to denny's or to a small cafe    we have the greatest conversations    most of our songs get written that way       ok, so i never really met her    but there was one time that i almost did    she stayed on her side of the courtroom and said "can't you lock up this fucking kid?"    so they granted the restraining order    but i think in this case the system's wrong    oh ani, can't you see i love you?    i just wanted you to hear my new song       it goes:    we're on our own can you picture it?    you and me baby and we're driving down the highway    we can't be wrong if you think of it    we illustrate the soundtrack and we're driving down the highway       and i never asked to be different    she'll never know the way i feel unless i hit the highway    so i drove all night through a misty rain    and suddenly i catch a glimpse of ani as she takes the stage    her first song is a prince cover that i just love    and then she breaks it down into untouchable face    she breaks a string before the third song and the crowd just waits    but when she starts the show again this is just what she'll say:       we're on our own can you picture it    you and me jay and we're just driving down the highway    we might be wrong but just think of it    we'll rewrite the whole soundtrack as we get another state away