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Solitaire
I'm not so bulletproof
But this is something
I could never say to you
This sometimes buries me
And I don't know if this is someone I can be


I tell myself it's right
Still feels so wrong


It's better than nothing
I'd rather not be here all by myself
It's better than nothing here with someone else
It's better than nothing
I'd rather not be standing here alone
It's better than feeling like you're on your own


I'm not so culpable
I never meant for this to get out of control

>> Best Defense

Best Defense
You haven't heard a word of what I said
I'd give anything to get inside your head
You act as if there's nothing left to say
I guess everything is easier that way


I know that you don't want to think about it anyway


I won't let you hide from this
Even with your best defense
You can't deny the way you feel about me


I know you think about it all of time
But there's nothing left to make you change your mind
I know you think you're doing what is right
But you're acting on frustration out of spite


And I don't want to say another word to start a fight


And if you're so convinced that we're so wrong
You're still standing here where you've been all along
It doesn't make much difference where we think that we belong

>> Just Like You Said

Just Like You Said
And now that all is said and done
It's kind of hard to hold my tongue
Because you still don't believe you're wrong
I'm not so sure what I would say
If I could talk to you that way
You wouldn't understand


I was foolish from the start
I've tried not to fall apart
It's just like you said but everything is somehow different


I've tried hard not to admit
That there was some truth to it
It's just like you said but everything is somehow different


Have you ever imagined what you think?
The way your circumstance would be?
And fixed a picture in your head
I guess you've thought of everything
I'm sure you know much more than me
At least that's what you think


It shouldn't have to make you wonder
I thought you knew it all along
How I was innocent and pure
And you were smug and so demure
When you predicted I would fall

>> Think For Yourself

Think for Yourself
You think you know just what it means
To be alone
You think you've suffered for your cause
You're wrong


I don't really need to know what makes you tick
Or what you think is right
I don't want to know the reason you believe


Right now you're like the others
Your thoughts are not your own
Try thinking for yourself and act on what you know


Still you try to defend these things
You were taught
You've got to try to change the way
You learn


Sometimes it feels just like I've burned
Every single bridge
That I have ever crossed
I always try to learn
From all of these mistakes
Mistakes that I have made
But pride is a worthy adversary
In the struggle for yourself

>> Hollow

Hollow
I'll never feel again
I'll never feel again
Then I won't have to feel this pain I'm in


If it sounds familiar
Because nothing ever goes the way I've planned
If it sounds peculiar
Then you don't have to try and understand


I'll never feel again
I'll never feel again
Then I won't have to feel this pain I'm in


I'm not a great example
Of everything the world expects of us
I know I'm no exception
I've questioned everything I used to trust
A question of necessity or lust


I'll never feel again
I'll never feel again
Then I won't have to feel this pain I'm in


It's as simple as you make it
And as complicated as who you think you are

>> What's In A Name?

What's in a Name?
Open-minded educated
Popular and medicated now
And you still won't make it
Filled with silent indignation
Blind with hopeless expectation now
And you still won't make it


So you're afraid that they will think ill of you
Get a load of me now
And if you're scared they couldn't care less of you
Get over yourself now


It's fame and popularity
I'll never understand
If it feels like this is what you need
You'll never understand


Innocence and innuendo
Confidence and acquiescence now
And you still won't make it
Self-consciousness is not a virtue
Everyone is looking at you now
You may never make it

>> You Could've Had Everything

You Could've Had Everything
Ignorance and arrogance mean quite the same to me
Take a look around you and I'm sure you will agree
The world is aaaa of people filled with hatred filled with greed
It's such a rare example when you've found a human being


You could've had everything but you
You would've been scared of what to do
You should've been so much more to us than just exonerated
Why shouldn't it break your heart in two?


I find little entertains me anymore
The problems of the world are often tedious and worn
I'm reading all about it with a chuckle and a sneer
They say a new beginning and they say the end is near


Get in your self-assuredness and take it for a spin
You'll be standing by yourself when they've all given in
It's "take before it's taken from you" every single day
I wish it wasn't like this
I don't know another way

>> Out Of Focus

Out of Focus
I knew what I wanted and I was fixed on it
I was sure of it I could've been wrong
It seems like it's never quite like
I thought it'd be
The reality am I where I belong?


It's not like they said


It feels like most everything's out of focus in my mind
I'm trying to make some sense out of what I left behind
The difference in who I am and the one want to be
It seemed so much easier when there was something to believe


A different perspective now and the world I see
Is in front of me and everything's wrong
The grass was so much greener when it was next to me
Now it's under me am I where I belong?


The world it only seems to change from where you look
Much different than the pictures that they took
It's nothing like they said it would be

>> Icons

Icons
I think it's starting again
The same thing that happens when
I'm sure what I'm thinking about is right
But I don't know anything
The inhibitions decline
Decided to make up my mind
I'm sure what I'm thinking is right
But I don't know anything


So why are you loking to me for the answers?
It's only the truth if you want to believe in it


Everyone wants to live another life
So many aspirations have been placed upon you
Everyone wants to live another life
So many aspirations have been placed upon you


I'm not sure where to begin
I've taken a lot on the chin
And everyone else seems to win
And I don't have anything


Convinced that this is what you want
Are you really sure you know it all?
So willing to trust in anyone
Confused by what they call the truth
The only thing you know for sure
Is you don't trust a single thing about yourself
So who am I to decide?
I've tried my best and I've tried

>> Shame On Me

Shame On Me
It started out all wrong
I wasn't thinking
Everything is wrong
I couldn't see it


I guess I thought that things
Would somehow try and work themselves out
I'd like to think it's not so easy
to convince myself that everything is going to be OK


Shame on me this time
I was only trying to make the best of this
I should have known
Fool me once then shame on you
Again and I must choose
Between suspicion and naivete


This is what you wanted anyway
This time shame on me


I still believe I'm right
Even though I understand your side
You have your reasons

>> Estranged

Estranged
Day after day
You go on living while I wait
It still feels the same
I'm stuck for answers while you place the blame


I guess it comes to this again
So what's there left to say
You thought you'd feel no different
Now that everything has changed
I guess it comes to this again
What difference does it make?
That you and I think better
Of the choices that we've made


It's fading away
I don't remember everything
The words we used to say
Seem insignificant today

>> Disappointed

Disappointed
Reality is what you want to see
It shouldn't make a difference to me
I put my trust in what you had to say
It didn't make a difference anyway


I know you've tried your "very best"
And I'm so glad
Thank you so much


Disappointment is what you've made this
Expectations overrated
Disappointment is what you've made this
My ambition is so deflated


Reality is different for me
My eyes are opened wide enough to see
I've listened to your explinations why
The more you fail the harder that I try


A case of mistaken opportunity
I guess I really got it wrong
Identity is insignificant
Or is it everything?