Now if you weren't such a sucker
For finishing everything you started up
And if i weren't beside myself
There'd be just the two of us

I made the gruesome discovery
That everybody else was right about me and now the whistle has been blwon
I've been diagnosed
With a heart that a known unknown

So tell me, baby, whats so good
About being understood
I would be terrified if i could read your mind
And the real me
You couldn't even identify
So this is what you get
This is what you get

Now I can't wait
There's so much I don't want to tell you
And there's so much that you don't want me to see
And darling there's so much you'd like to change
If you were me
But if you were me i'd give me a piece of your mind
A self portrait peering out through the polygraph lines
There's no photogenic feelings, no rich inner life
Just a strange loop
And I'm once, twice, a thousand times removed

So tell me, baby, whats so good
About feeling understood
Now my time might be a joke but it
Never gets old
And my true self was beyond help
Long ago
So this is what you get
This is what you get

Now if you were'nt such a sucker
For being there when i need you
I would be terrified
If I could read your mind
So tell me, baby, whats so good
About being understood


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    "Identity, the idea of the self. This song deliberately confuses that with somebody eles. Theres a lot of talk around about your true self, or the real you, or you're somehow on the path to finding the real you, or getting in touch with your true self. I dunno everytime i hear stuff like that, i just think thats a bunch of bullshit. You are pretty much are, who you are at any given moment, you cant really defer it, you cant really say to people i'm not my real self yet, get back to me later when i'm awesome. You are who you are. The song attempts to address that what if you are what everyone thinks of you, not what you think of you. It's a fun song, it's got some silly guitars on it." youtube.com/watch

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