I'm Wrong About Everything
You win the argument
At the end of every night
I never know the perfect time
To hit the bedside light |
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Then we lie awake
Watch headlights climb the blinds
I want you to know what's going on
In my mind
I thought I was immortal a little while ago |
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I thought that I was right but now I know
I'm wrong about everything
I think that I can sing
And when you hear the song, you'll wanna sing along
I'm wrong about everything |
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Think I know what's happening
I think you'll like our song, but I'm wrong
The colours fade to grey
And I'm left with black and white
Don't know why I try |
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To fight with what is right
The truth is on our lips
It looks like time to tell
But you know I could be wrong about that as well
I thought a happy ending was more or less assured |
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I thought a little warmth could win the war
I'm wrong about everything
I think that I can sing
And when you hear the song, you'll wanna sing along
I'm wrong about everything
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Think I know what's happening
I think you'll like our song, but I'm wrong
I'll do the best I can
To be your lover man
I'll stand corrected |
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Just to be elected
I'll do what I can do
To get up close to you
Listen.... Sh......
I'm wrong about everything |
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I think that I can sing
And when you hear the song, you'll wanna sing along
I'm wrong about everything
Think I know what's happening
I think you'll like our song, but I'm wrong |
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The saint, tormented after another sleepless night, wrestles Jacob-like with the angel of his conscience.
(3) 'Perfect/immortal/right/wrong': again the agonized epistemological-eschatological dialectic.
(5) 'Awake' was the name of John Wesley Harding's 1998 album.
(16) From the 'demo' ('Democratic vision'? 'For demonstration purpose only'? The origins of this word are unclear) we know that at one point this line read 'I think you'll like this song' rather than 'our song'. However, the self-referential nature of the line was questioned by RS, the mysterious 'Dark Editor' of The Confessions. The humourous self-denigration of 'I think that I can sing' was acceptable to The Dark Editor, but the final line culminating in 'I think you'll like this song' was considered a chorus too far: 'You don't have to listen to anything I say... but that last line... I just don't know whether I like it.' Correspondence Pertaining To Confessions ed.Lydia Meddle (IULM Press, 1998) Thus, the influence of Calvino, so prevalent in the earlier confessions, is further diminished.
(18) 'Black-and-white' is also the slang name for a particular capsule than contains Biphetamine (cited in Landy's Underground Dictionary 1970.) Could this be the root of the problem?
(24) 'A happy ending' - 'Life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel' (Dante, Purgatorio)
(26-7) St.Ace is almost certainly wrong about his ability to sing. Gervaise de Blois records that his' voys was that of ye corncrake'. (Caxton's translation p119)
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