verse 1 You're transcendent, you taught me so many things You taught me that help is all we to this dumb planet bring But one time sticks out for me, you were five, we were working with Bob in Maui Driving a rental Sebring, the top down, every morning we'd drive on down to verse 2 Baby Beach and the Pacific Ocean's not the sea, we'll surf the waves And we'll walk the sand to bring your leg back that you'd broken And you needed to learn how to walk again and I could help you with all this To help you is all there is, you showed me that that's all there is That helping is transcendence verse 3 And after we'd go and eat at Anthony's Or we'd drive around and maybe stop and eat Fukushima Hot Dogs Sittin' on the hood or we'd drive to the top of the volcano called Haleakala At night we'd stare up at the moon and we did all this listening to Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga by Spoon verse 4 Months later we were back in Toronto, a Tuesday night, an all ages show You were so young, we sat in the back row, Deerhunter opened the show The headliner was introduced, we did our best, we'd have to go soon We got a T-shirt and we caught five tunes Just enough to say the first show for us two was Spoon

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