Lies We Tell Ourselves
In my Drive folder I have an entire folder titled "Semi," which contains dozens of songs I've half-written over the years. I browsed around through it and finished a couple I added here already. This song just had one line: "Like an old worn book that sits there on the shelf, full of the lies we tell ourselves." I couldn't remember if that was just part of a verse, or the hook and title. So I just wrote around it, a song about some of the lies many of us tell ourselves. Although it sorta just poured onto the page without me paying much attention, that last verse really gets me. "I'll get right to it, when I get a chance. And when the next slow song plays, that's when I'll dance." I guess something was burning in my mind, as that really hits close to home for me - the metaphorical nature of putting something off with a bargain, and then never doing it.
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I don't have a problem
And it'll be okay
She still loves me, come tomorrow
She'll forget yesterday
A man might have his weakness
Just like everybody else
That she'll forgive you's on the list
Of the lies we tell ourselves
(Chorus)
That we are something
That we ain't
That when the morning dawns
We'll seize the day
With a bit more time
I could do it all
And if people stop pushing me
Then I wouldn't fall
Like an old worn book that sits there on the shelf
Full of the lies we tell ourselves
If I had their money
Then I'd surely change
I'd be happy; I'd settle down
I'd give most of it away
I can't escape the past
It's just what I was dealt
Add one more to the dresser drawer
Of the lies we tell ourselves
(Chorus)
I'll get right to it
When I get a chance
And when the next slow song plays
That's when I'll dance
I just can't say it
It's too heartfelt
Run far away so you stay safe
In the lies we tell ourselves
(Chorus)
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