I turn off all of your friends when we’re out with them.
I can’t stop causing offense to your crowd, diddums.
You paint me up as a saint while I mess with you.
Your friends are merely fair game. I’m obsessed with you.
We’re going in hard again.
We’re going in hard again.
Well I came to explain what you’re doing.
And your fold have been told and they’re ruined.
You see, I’m very polite when I speak at you.
You call me every night and I weaken you.
You think you know how it is but you’re just thirty.
I’ve been here longer than you and I’m trustworthy.
If your friends are correct, they’re still boring.
’Cause you know we’re aglow and we’re soaring.
I have a plan that’s not going to work,
but I’ll try it anyway just to watch myself fail.
I’ll use the future to reimagine the past
until it makes sense.
The future’s a scary place,
can I not just lie in with the curtains drawn?
I’m used to it now,
I’m used to it now,
I’m used to it now,
like watching TV with a broken screen.
Unreal conditional tense –
If I had have done that I’d be just the same.
Nothing to be done;
when the mice are away the cats are going to play.
I’m used to it now,
I’m used to it now,
I’m used to it now,
like watching TV with a broken screen.
credits
from True Correction For A Bright Future,
released March 5, 2021
Written by Sean Talbot, Sam Wisternoff and Robin Allender
Robin Allender – Guitar, vocals, synth, samples
Sean Talbot – Piano, drums, bass guitar, guitar, organ, synth
Sam Wisternoff – Drums, organs, percussion, vocals, synth
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