Isn't It Always

from Isn't It Always More by Out the Car Window

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Forget the songs I write
Even I forget the words sometimes
I can't seem to believe myself
for more than 4 years at a time

and that's to say
I tear out my back pages
and I don't need to trust myself
to know I go in phases

and that's a lie
I changed my mind
I'll only ever be the myself
I always knew I'd become in time

I don't know why it sounds so bad
to say I'm all I've got
and I can't believe it
took me so long just to know I'm not
and it's lonesome thing to say
that all I'll ever be
is a version of myself
I hope that no one ever sees

by no means
am I done
trying to figure
out which words to sing

and it's a drag to know
my voice will never sing
simple ways of phrasing
things I'll never see

I don't know why it sounds so bad
to say I'm all I've got
and I can't believe it
took me so long just to know I'm not
and it's lonesome thing to say
that all I'll ever be
is a version of myself
I hope that no one ever sees

Isn't it always
the only thing ever
to make you feel better
is somebody else

Isn't it always
the only thing ever
to make you feel better
is somebody else

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from Isn't It Always More, released January 11, 2018

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