Oh I want, to stray from the path, that I decided to walk.
I’ll reconsider all the rules, and all the talk I’ve talked.
I wish you knew the half of it, so there’d be less to tell.
Despite all my best efforts to stay out of love I fell.
Straight into the trap you laid,
And the lies you know, all too well.
You know how, to make me blush.
You know what to do, so my sentences rush.
You know exactly what to say, and do.
So that I am a mess when I’m with you.
If you were to look at me with love, then I’d know something wasn’t right.
I just don’t have that kind of luck and I’d try to start a fight.
To see if this was real or did I, simply convince myself.
That this thing went both ways and one did not share all the wealth.
Of love and power in this game, of chance.
And pure, happenstance.
You know how, to make me blush.
You know what to do, so my sentences rush.
You know exactly what to say, and do.
So that I am a mess when I’m with you.
Oh I want, to stray from the path, that I decided to walk.
credits
from A Little Less Rough,
released April 13, 2011
Produced by Andrew Rohlk & Matthew Huckfeldt
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