Romie Adler's Musical Guide

Chapter 6: "Come Away With Me" - Norah Jones

Lyrics:

COME AWAY WITH ME
In the night
COME AWAY WITH ME
And I will write you a song

COME AWAY WITH ME
On a bus
COME AWAY
Where they can't tempt us
With their lies

I want to walk with you
On a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high
So won't you try to come

COME AWAY WITH ME
And we'll kiss
On a mountaintop
COME AWAY WITH ME
And I'll never stop loving you

And I want to wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come away with me in the night
COME AWAY WITH ME

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"So... you and Nolan?" Charlie said to me as fi she was trying to imply something that wasn't true.

"It's not like that. I'm doing it as a favor, becauase he didn't have a date." I said as I began to walk away from Charlie to avoid any other incorrect questions that she might happen to ask me.

       Tomorrow is Kellan's wedding, and I don't have a dress to wear. I'm not the type of girl who owns a dress that's suitable for a wedding, so today I recruited Charlie to help me find one. We are at the thrift store in an affordable part of town, because I'm a struggling former college student that can't afford shit, or even toilet paper to clean that said shit.

"Would you rather have Dex as your date?" Charlie said, and I could hear the annoyance behind her voice.

        I was skeptical at first to tell Charlie about how I accepted Dex's friendship invitation after I saw him at the record label party. So far, my "promise" to Dex hasn't been in existence yet, I'm a little skeptical about that one too.

"NO. Why would you ask me that?" I asked as I began to distract myself from the subject of Dex, by looking at the price tag of a dress I found.

"Because you're letting him back into your vagina." Charlie said just a little too loud.

       An older lady in the next aisle from us took a nasty eyed peak back at us, after Charlie spoke out loud. Yes, lady we are young and still have sex -- even though for me, it's been awhile -- I'm sorry that your old and all dried up, I felt like saying to the lady, but reframed.
I got to love Charli though, for being so blunt and not being ashamed of it. She's like the sister I never had, so I didn't get mad at her for it.

"I'm not letting him back into anything. But, haven't you ever wondered what it would be like to be friends with someone again that just so happens to be you ex-boyfriend?" I asked.

       I was hoping to rest my case with what I said, but just like me, Charlie had to fight against it.

"Yeah, if I started hanging out with my ex-boyfriend again, then I would probably be shitfaced, or worse roofied on some sausage fest yest in the middle of the ocean, where guys are taking their turns with me, and I can't do anything about because I'm so loaded I can't stand." Charlie said.