kid i held you with these arms that felt so hard
you kept your chin up and i held my guard
made a prison bed from a life i never led
let me correct these mistakes you delight in

god i hope i get it right / i've been practicing
kid i hope it holds some fraction of its feeling
if you keep believing then i'll keep on being
a ghost in his prison bed short sheeted and shook dead
looking at love he still hasn't made yet

that i couldn't make to you / baby, i can barely move

kid you were wrong / that wasn't me in that song
you write the lie you'd like to be
when your life feels like a book you wouldn't read

kid i've lived through others i made myself so small
i lived through a record one summer last fall
the singer said something i could only feel
i saw him this morning he still looked real real

god i need him here tonight
i just know he'd get this right

kid i'm a mess
if it looked good you're seeing things i guess
i changed my mind so many times / i'm a strobe light

flickering freak. the baby of the week.

i'm starting to see someone i could never be

kid what went wrong? / we had it all now it's all gone
i blew my mind out / now it's your turn to find out

what we all need
what we all mean

i'm starting to see someone i don't want to be


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    I think it's about Blake being other people through his music. When he writes music, he often writes as a character, then people believe he is that person, but he never was. Kids (or maybe even him) listen to music, and it makes them feel better, and they relate to the singer and love him for feeling like they do, but really the singer never felt it in the first place. I think it's kind of an apology in a way. That kind of makes sense right?

    SavestheWeezon June 10, 2004   Link

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