This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
Say when you're alone
It's better 'cause nobody knows you
When no one's your friend
It's better 'cause nobody leaves you
So you turned your back
On a world that you could never have
'Cause your heart's been cracked
And everyone else's is goin' mad
But I hear voices
And I see colors
But I wish I felt nothing
Then it might be easy for me
Like it is for you
Now all of these people
Come up from deep holes
Pullin' you down
And it's just no use
When all the abuse follows you down
By the morning you've gone
Leavin' me here all alone
Sayin' it's no mystery
I know that nobody here needs me
But I hear voices
And I see colors
But I wish I felt nothing
Then it might be easy for me
Like it is for you
And I know you believe that you and me don't belong here
And the worst we could do
Is keep trying to pretend we care
But I hear voices
And I see colors
But I wish I felt nothing
Then it might be easy for me
Like it is for you
Like it is for you
Like it is for you
It's better 'cause nobody knows you
When no one's your friend
It's better 'cause nobody leaves you
So you turned your back
On a world that you could never have
'Cause your heart's been cracked
And everyone else's is goin' mad
But I hear voices
And I see colors
But I wish I felt nothing
Then it might be easy for me
Like it is for you
Now all of these people
Come up from deep holes
Pullin' you down
And it's just no use
When all the abuse follows you down
By the morning you've gone
Leavin' me here all alone
Sayin' it's no mystery
I know that nobody here needs me
But I hear voices
And I see colors
But I wish I felt nothing
Then it might be easy for me
Like it is for you
And I know you believe that you and me don't belong here
And the worst we could do
Is keep trying to pretend we care
But I hear voices
And I see colors
But I wish I felt nothing
Then it might be easy for me
Like it is for you
Like it is for you
Like it is for you
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''But I hear voices And I see colors''
that might be about the fight before a breakup ending in some kind of violence..
''But I wish I felt nothing Then it might be easy for me Like it is for you''
when she left him she felt all high and mighty and still remained how she was before they went out and he is just in the slums and his life went downhill from all the overflowing emotions.