Song Description

A stripped-down tune about learning from mistakes. Regretting past actions, yet knowing that experience cultivates growth and that which seems complicated is simple in the eyes of love. Lonely, still, and steadfast.

Lyrics

I wish you weren't the one
that had to teach me to let go.
I wish I'd come undone
and found my weakness long ago.
Then I'd meet you clean
and knowing how to treat this right.
Then I'd be the one
To see you through the night.

But I'm still a child whose father gave away
Everything he really wanted and even to this day
He lives his life as if it's buried in his mother's grave.
I get lost in him at times and over-compensate.

But inside me, there's a wealth of information.
And I'm turning inside out more everyday.
I wish you could see past my awkward explanation
The way I see beyond the hesitation you display.

Baby, I'm much, much better
than you've come to know me to be.
And I think it might be chalked up to
the way you want to see me.
I've been humilified by you
Consider yourself lucky
That my heart was willing to break through
Incongruity.

I wish you weren't the one
that's got me aching to be heard.
We had much more fun
before I knew I was being lured.
Somehow you swept me off my feet
and consequently mocked me.
Somehow I missed the ground
and kissed you even when you dropped me.

Now I'm running wild
And you're running away.
I threw too many eggs at you
and went for broke today.
But I try to live my life
with both feet firm outside my grave.
I try to understand
the truth behind the things I crave.

Inside me, there's a wealth of information.
And I'm turning inside out more everyday.
I wish you could see past my awkward presentation
The way I see beyond the complication you relay.

Baby, I'm much, much better
than you've come to know me to be.
And I think it might be chalked up to
the way you want to see me.
I've been humilified by you
Consider yourself lucky
That my heart was willing to break through
Incongruity.

My heart was willing to break
through incongruity.