Reacclimate to my surroundings Back in a city that just seems to eat itself All I really want to do is get back into you No tension, no worries But every time it comes around I find gray ways to let you down I can't control my instincts Why can't I be happy just to call you a friend? I thought things could be different Maybe I could do some good Come home spent to unemploy a past from Hollywood Some things can change everything Despite their rights and wrongs I'm getting reacquainted with my lower self Redhead teach me compassion from your fragrant continent While you're at it you can ressurect my family While you're at it you can summon Christ and part the seas While you're at it you can polarize my chemicals I'm so sick of trying to fight my body and you at the same time I am righteous in my anger! All I have to give you is my lower self I will sing of how we made love like strangers All I'll have to sell you is my lower self Oh how you are as pretty as the postpunk kids you pity Oh how you swear by the myth that you're not beautiful How nothing ever seems to work the way that it gets planned So we turn away from everyone that loves us Hypnotized by waves our lives are deer blocking the lane We can just sit back and watch it all go up in flames Until every note, every chord sounds the same It goes boom boom boom on my ego It goes boom boom boom but I don't mind anymore 'Cause You can only go boom boom boom for so long Until it hurts you more than it hurts me Nothing ever seems to work the way that it gets planned So I will turn away from everything that hurts me Climb back into a cloud of smoke My face close to the flame Camera pulling back, leaving you left of the frame It's a party and you're not invited



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Track duration: 02:51

"We Are Both Writers" as written by William/buck Berry

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    General Comment:You missed the best line...

    "I am righteous in my anger!
    all I have to give you is my lower self
    We'll sing of how we made love like strangers
    all I have to sell you is my lower self "

    Also it's spelled W-H-I-L-E
    Flag hemlock_echoon June 19, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Wow, Ben really has amazing lyrics.
    Flag patty wagonon March 30, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i love the ending of this song.
    Flag high fidelityon February 28, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:My dear lord, this song is fantastic. I love how Ben is able to change the tone and feel of his songs to fit the emotion. So many bands just drone on with different variations of the same song.
    Flag bright.eyed.girlon March 11, 2003   Link

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