Squeaky Wheel

Squeaky Wheel

Squeaky wheel on a grocery cart
Tuesday night, fluorescent light
I'm pretending not to like you
You are reading labels left to right
I've built a whole personality
Around being hard to impress
Then you reach behind the cereal
Grab the snack I loved and never said

No fireworks, no speech
Just one tiny remembered thing

Squeaky wheel, aisle nine
Squeaky wheel, you keep bumping mine
You got me with the thing I forgot I liked
Squeaky wheel, take the long way twice

Squeaky Wheel
Squeaky Wheel

We argue over pasta sauce
You put the bad one in the cart
I take it out, you put it back
Now everybody knows where we're at
At checkout you hand me the candy
Say you noticed it last week
I spent years wanting grand attention
You gave me small and made it deep

Squeaky wheel, aisle nine
Squeaky wheel, you keep bumping mine
You got me with the thing I forgot I liked
Squeaky wheel, take the long way twice

I thought attraction needed mystery
You made memory look better
You got me with the thing I forgot I liked
A cart with one squeaky wheel gave it away

Squeaky wheel, checkout light
Squeaky wheel, still beside me in line
You got me with the thing I forgot I liked
Squeaky wheel, easy yes tonight

Squeaky Wheel