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lyrics

You live in fear
The animal in you
Just can’t accept the cold veneer
You perceive to be the truth
Just when you think you’re safe
A new one comes along
And settles in your place

How do you rate
If you could hear the truth you would
But defeat would be too great
It’s never worth the pain
The luxury of life
So wasted on the vain
A million losing battles can’t explain

When you escape
You’d love to find the place
Where a glance is just a glance
And a face is just a face
But up until you do
You’ll find a fresh young friend
Who’s got a friend or two
And what a problem it creates for you
You never see the old within the new

I’d fall in love with anyone
I’d fall in love with anyone
Tell me what needs to be done
Because I’m dying over here under the sun


Resigned too late
To the damning way of fate
You’re not the fairest of the fair
Or the greatest of the great
You scrutinize your face
And everything you see
Is everything you hate
The mirror has this way of reading you
The way you hope that people never do

I’d fall in love with anyone
I’d fall in love with anyone
Tell me what needs to be done
Because I’m dying over here under the sun

So is it really still that game
Wallow in your shame
Until you wish it were last year
Or every other day
Silent in your cell
Slowly being swallowed by your hell
And is it me who can’t address
The trouble with success
Or how you fit into the world
But never in that dress

It’s hard to get your way
When everything you do
Trumps everything you say
So which one is it going to be today
The lying and the truth just feel the same

I’d fall in love with anyone
Tell me what needs to be done
Because I’m dying over here under the sun

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from The Trouble With Success or How You Fit Into the World, released September 21, 2003

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