you must think this is easy for me
to get up here with every ounce of fear
like vulnerability ain't a part of me
i bet your thinking i have it made
with a guitar filling up a tip jar
as if it's going to be enough to feed my rent
now you're thinking i'm out getting laid
by that hippy and smoking up his crippy
as if the free love won't cost a feeling in the end
haven't you thought about the empty spaces
in my closet as a home to your skeletons?
i'll drink with those i meet as strangers and those you see as friends... there are those you see as friends.
you won't think about what this means
cuz it's safer, or maybe cuz it's easier
than having to relate, but you're being taken as bait
and i'm reeling you in, slowly.
ask me where i'm headed and i'll say
"you're thinking over to your place"
today, i'm actually going no where
after the moment is over
and you won't see the sweat on me
cuz i'm cleaner than a'whistling dixie
it ain't insecurity, i'm just anxious to see
if you've thought about the empty spaces
in my closet as a home to your skeletons.
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