Coats were thick out on the corner
They were watching someone crawl
It was half past "never mind, now"
When they finally made the call
And when they made it to the lobby
There wasn't anybody there
Had to scratch it off the clipboard
Had to dust an empty chair
Ask me if I'll take the rap for you
Ask me if I'll take the fall
The fact you even ask the question
Says that you don't know me at all
A sober book of snapshots
Helped to catalog the sting
They left to fax the info
To a rumored office wing
Left your anchors in a pawnshop
Burned a bridge to hide your trail
They found your strategy for transplant
Suffocated in the mail
Ask me if I'll take the rap for you
Ask me if I'll take the fall
The fact you even ask the question
Shows you never knew me at all
An outlet at the airport
The ATM in the bar
A U-Haul south of Rosemont
Some spare change on the tar
Saw a problem in the parking lot
I slipped out of 403
Never found who wrote the e-mail
Couldn't trace it back to me
Saw you take the rap out there
I watched you take the fall
Never got to ask the question
Guess you never knew me at all