This Glass Embrace — It All Cuts Both Ways, Now lyrics

Lyrics

I know nothing you said wasn’t true
Believe it or not, I know it better than you
It’s just tonight was no night for bad news
And there’s a note on the door from someone else I’ve let down
There’s just too damn much of that going around
It’s not me. All of this. It’s not me
And I swore I’d be different, I swore I would change
Well, sorry
And to that shy, brilliant child with glasses too big
Smiling up at the grown-ups with his small, crooked teeth
I’m so sorry. This is all you became
Enjoy your notebooks of stories and your near-perfect grades
Because both will dry up by your nineteenth birthday
You won’t notice until it’s too late to change
Every last thing I’ve promised — they’ve all fallen through
And you can say what you want, but I’ve failed you, too
Everyone that I’ve loved, I’ve let down
And later this month, I will turn twenty-two
I shouldn’t feel scared, but God help me, I do
All that time… all those memories gone
All that time… and just what have I done?
And to that shy, brilliant child with glasses too big
Smiling up at the grown-ups with his small, crooked teeth
I’m so sorry. This is all you became
Enjoy your notebooks of stories and your near-perfect grades
Because both will dry up by your nineteenth birthday
You won’t notice until it’s too late to change