Nothing to Prove-Jill Sobule

[00:00.43]I remember laying down [00:02.92]It was 1983 [00:04.59] [00:05.53]Under the tree while listening to London [00:08.84]Calling or something like that [00:10.95]Twenty-three years later [00:12.89] [00:13.39]I'm here at a meeting [00:16.19]Trying to impress someone at a dying record company [00:20.56] [00:21.37]I got nothing to prove [00:24.56] [00:26.56]And in walks in this sullen girl [00:29.05]Who looks like she's nineteen' or wants to be [00:31.98]With her biker boots and her hair dyed black [00:34.66]Did that look so many years ago [00:37.04]She looks at me like I'm some ****** [00:39.85]Or I'm like her mother [00:42.40]Well' **** you' kid; I got nothing to prove [00:45.71] [00:46.27]Nothing to prove [00:48.27] [00:49.09]Nothing to prove [00:50.96] [00:53.32]Once I was as miserable as you [00:56.76] [00:57.32]Nothing to prove [00:58.50] [00:59.62]Nothing to prove [01:01.13] [01:04.24]I got nothing to prove [01:07.74] [01:08.87]And here I am in Los Angeles [01:11.55]I came here two years ago [01:13.54] [01:14.23]And everyone's young and beautiful' [01:16.67]and their skin is so smooth [01:19.53]And everyone's in the industry' [01:22.03]and I hate when they use that word [01:24.77]And when they tell me they're in the industry' [01:27.40]I ask' "Oh' are you in steel?" [01:30.15]I've got nothing to prove [01:34.01]Nothing to prove [01:36.51]Nothing to prove [01:37.36] [01:41.11]Once I was as miserable as you [01:45.10]Nothing to prove [01:47.54]Nothing to prove [01:49.11] [01:51.92]I got nothing to prove [01:54.97] [01:56.72]And later that week I saw that same girl shopping [01:59.90]at the Trader Joe's on La Brea [02:02.46]She was with a big bomb blonde' [02:04.72]and I wondered if it was her girlfriend [02:07.21]Surprisingly' she came up to me [02:09.63]and smiled and said she loved our meeting [02:12.75]Maybe I judged her wrong [02:15.38]But usually I'm right [02:18.13]I got nothing to prove [02:21.95]Nothing to prove [02:23.81] [02:24.63]Nothing to prove [02:26.00] [02:28.74]Once I was as miserable as you [02:32.11] [02:32.74]Nothing to prove [02:35.17]Nothing to prove [02:36.42] [02:39.92]I got nothing to prove [02:41.94] [02:43.13]Nothing to prove [02:45.81]Nothing to prove [02:49.24] [02:49.80]Once I was as miserable as you [02:53.11] [02:53.92]Nothing to prove [02:55.23] [02:56.29]Nothing to prove [02:57.72] [03:00.91]I got nothing to prove