Too Many Metaphors
from Before They Sold Out: Part 1 by Common Shiner
lyrics
Longing to say the words that always felt so wrong from my lips
All the things that we could be, and all the reasons it can't be this
But I can't move, I may never walk again
Please don't define it because then it will end
Time stands still when you ask me what I'm thinking
Because I know I can't answer honestly
Because I'm trying to make you fall in love with me
I'm just trying to make you fall
I just can't find the words to get me out of this
Though I know I might be lost the moment they pass my lips
There's so many ways to describe how beautiful you look tonight
And there's so many metaphors I got wrong trying to get it right
I know I'm running out of time, I just don't want this moment to end
And then you look at me that way like you know just what I'm doing
I'm just trying to make you fall in love with me
I'm just trying to make you fall
All the things that we could be, and all the reasons it can't be this
But I can't move, I may never walk again
Please don't define it because then it will end
Time stands still when you ask me what I'm thinking
Because I know I can't answer honestly
Because I'm trying to make you fall in love with me
I'm just trying to make you fall
I just can't find the words to get me out of this
Though I know I might be lost the moment they pass my lips
There's so many ways to describe how beautiful you look tonight
And there's so many metaphors I got wrong trying to get it right
I know I'm running out of time, I just don't want this moment to end
And then you look at me that way like you know just what I'm doing
I'm just trying to make you fall in love with me
I'm just trying to make you fall
credits
from Before They Sold Out: Part 1,
released May 31, 2011
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Feb 2013 -
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Sep 1999 -
Jan 1999
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