well I hear you're driving someone else's car now

she said she came and took your stuff away

all the poetry and the trunk you kept your life in

I knew that it would come to that someday



like a sad hallucination

when I opened up my eyes

the train had passed the station

and you were trapped inside

and I never wondered where you went,

I only wondered why, I wondered why



CHORUS

oh Caroline

oh Caroline

oh Caroline

oh Caroline



well I hear you're using someone else's number

she said she saw you in the store today

it doesn't matter whose address you're listed under

I only know they'll never make you stay



like a memory in motion

you were only passing through

that is all you'll ever know of life,

that's all you'll ever do

there's a dream I have where I sail away

looking back, I wave at you

and I wave goodbye



oh Caroline

oh Caroline

oh Caroline

oh