Can you answer me?
No more time for questioning
My car's outside I want to leave
Don't you think I'm interesting
Well, I'm listening.

Everything's obvious
The way you put your hand on me
The way you talk so easily
The way your lips are glistening
Well, I'm listening.

You get around
You want me
You come around
You need me
This time around
I won't be back at all

Maybe misery is
What I need to keep my sanity
And I don't mean if things don't go my way
I'll be pleased to meet you

And maybe yesterday
Was a day that I could get away
Now today I'm stuck in sanity
And I'm pleased to meet you

Right now I think I'm sane,
But I'm really just anxious
To cross that bridge
The subconscious oasis
Where right is right
And wrong is wrong
And you weren't there
To build me up

You get around
You want me
You come around
You need me
This time around
I won't be back at all

Maybe misery
Is what I need to keep my sanity
And I don't mean if things don't go my way
I'll be pleased to meet you (pleased to meet you)

And maybe yesterday
Was a day that I could get away
Now today I'm stuck in sanity
And I've seen it all
I've seen it all
Many times before

Maybe misery
Is what I need to keep my sanity
And I don't mean if things don't go my way
I'll be pleased to meet you

And maybe yesterday was a day that I could get away
Now today I'm stuck in sanity
And I've seen it all
I've seen it all
Many times before

Maybe misery (many times before)
Is what I need to keep my sanity (many times before)
And I don't mean if things don't go my way (many times before)
I'll be pleased to meet you (many times before)

And maybe yesterday (many times before)
Was a day that I could get away (many times before)
Now today I'm stuck in sanity (many times before)
And I've seen it all
I've seen it all
Many times before


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    I think this song is about a boy who likes a girl, and when they party and stuff she flirts with him and lead him on to believe there relationship will go somewhere, but she only wants him/needs him when its convient for her, but now hes realizing all that, and he wants to leave her, and stop doin' it, or maybe hes been trying to stop [But this time around I won't be back at all] & [And I don't mean if things don't go my way I'll be pleased to meet you]

    so like if he leaves, he'll be alone, and if he doesnt find someone right away, or something to take the place of her in his life he'll run back to her...

    and everyday he feels like he missed his chance to get away... but for now he'll be 'pleased to meet her' ... still want to be with her in there "relationship"

    [And maybe yesterday Was the day that I could get away Now today I'm stuck in sanity And I'm pleased to meet you]

    but at this moment he KNOWS he shouldnt be with her... [Right now I think I'm sane, But I'm really just anxious To cross that bridge The subconscious oasis Where right is right And wrong is wrong And you aren't there To build me up] and i think this is saying he knows whats going on btwn them is right,

    with the 'build me up' .. i think that means when she wants him she builds him up // makes him feel good about himself, only to be let down when he once agian realizes she doesnt honestly care about him, and its not right...

    i dont know,... thats just what i think.... i love the beginning... dont you think im interesting..? it makes him sound so pathetic/sad/young.. i dont know.. =D

    amy xxon January 31, 2007   Link

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