["When we were recording the first record, I was living in the Hotel Edgewater in Madison, and I was losing my mind; they put my dog to sleep. I spent Thanksgiving with the blue plate special and just crazy, crazy -- watching Rush Limbaugh and Saved By The Bell and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Alice took a plane to Chicago and came up to see me and it felt like an oasis of just quiet sanity that was so nice, but of course it didn′t last and the bus that I put her on when she left was the Badger bus line."]

I took you down to the station

And I bought your ticket

Lord, I hate to see you go

And as you walk away

Please don't turn around, ′cause

I know you'd hate to see me cry

But I put you on that bus

And as it pulls away

You know I'd really rather be...

Oh, anywhere but here

Nowhere else but here

Anywhere but here

I wish I could take you there, now

Sit around the hotel room

We′re playing cards for nickels

It should always be this way

But I′m just a man

And you're a bit too crazy

And being together′s always hard

So I put you on that bus

But as it pulls away

You know I'd really rather be...

Oh, anywhere but here

Nowhere else but here

Anywhere but here

I wish I could take you there, now

′Cause I sure as hell don't wanna be here

Oh, now that you′re gone

Oh, now that you're gone

Oh, now that you're gone

So now you′re gone

And it′s my fault

And now that you're gone

I just had this thought

That I can hardly wait to see you

I can hardly wait to be...

Oh, anywhere but here

But I′m just a man

And you're a bit too crazy

And being together is always hard

Lord knows I′d rather be...

Oh, anywhere but here

Nowhere else but here

Anywhere but here

I wish I could take you there, now

'Cause I sure as hell don′t wanna be here

Oh, now that you're gone

Oh, now that you're gone

Oh, now that you′re gone

I can hardly wait to see you

I can hardly wait to see you