[Verse 1] She's the one they call at midnight when the whole thing's coming down The clearest head in any room, the calm in any town She'll map you out a future and she'll talk you off the ledge Then go home and do the opposite of every word she said [Chorus] Against her better judgment, and she knows it as it goes She can read a stranger's trouble but she cannot read her own The good advice is all for you, the folly's hers to keep She'll point you off the rocks at noon and hit them in her sleep [Verse 2] A man who counsels caution bet the house on something thin A doctor who tells everyone the shape that they are in Will skip his own appointments with a shrug and with a grin We see the others clearly through a glass we can't see in [Chorus] Against her better judgment, and she knows it as it goes She can read a stranger's trouble but she cannot read her own The good advice is all for you, the folly's hers to keep She'll point you off the rocks at noon and hit them in her sleep [Bridge] It isn't that they're stupid, it's the standing too close in You cannot read the label from inside the medicine The very thing that makes her wise, the feeling all the way Is the thing that blinds her looking at the mirror every day [Violin Solo] [Chorus] Against her better judgment, and she'd tell you not to go She can save a sinking stranger but she'll go down with her own The wisdom's all for other folks, the folly's hers to keep And she knows it, and she does it, in a logic running deep [Outro] The phone rings out at midnight, someone else's world to mend (knows it all, knows it all) And blind to her own again
