Told ya I was gonna do this...

[whitereflection]

Transcribed from listening, so might not be 100% perfect accuracy--just very close as I could. I noticed there's some slight differences from the original version on 1997's The Answers CD. But that's just the obsessive in me. Yeah.


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The Answer
Blue October
(Consent to Treatment, 2000)

If I can crawl inside of you
I'm laughing with a broken face
I stumble across my self esteem
but to picture the pleasure is making me want my space

Understand
that god wrapped you like a bow
But in my head
there's some shelves that need cleaning from basement to ceiling
Control
Control

If what you're seeing is an open book
that's great 'cause I'm an open book
but I'm real shy
Now there's a part of me seeking and desperately needing to
open up
Now that's so strange
'cause I'm an open book
a confused boy

That I'm an automatic steeple for depressed and lonely people
My heart while in its cage
give and not receive a thing
But the only funny thing
I don't know how to give myself advice

And I've got this post-traumatic thing
this tattoo of a ring
around my wedding finger
That's where I want to state this claim
that I've gotta learn
to live and dream
before I go and get myself
in love
In love
Before, before, before I go and get myself
in love

There's Zoloft, Welbutrin, there's Paxil
that's proven no side effects
But the rest left unnamed 'cause they work like a charm on me
But when your savings is drying, you can't stop from crying
you've got to suck it up
You're not her buttercup
You're not her favorite book

And I'm an automatic steeple for depressed and lonely people
My heart while in its cage
give and not receive a thing
But the only funny thing
I don't know how to give myself advice

And I've got this post-traumatic thing
this tattoo of a ring
around my wedding finger
That's where I want to state this claim
that I've gotta learn
to live and dream
before I go and get myself
in love
In love
Before, before, before I go and get myself
in love
In love
Before, before, before I go and get myself
in love