Crack The Case - Dawes

I will do your interview

Try to explain what I’m going through

Give you something to read into

In a million different ways

A sick version of telephone

Starts at the clip of the microphone

A game we thought we had all outgrown

But still everybody plays

Ignoring all of the remedies

Believing all of the rumors

With their endless database

I wanna sit with my enemies

And say, «We should have done this sooner»

While I look them in the face

Maybe that will crack the case

I got a friend who’s been thinking 'bout

Finally kicking her husband out

His second life as a talent scout

Finally got him caught

While she was throwing out all his clothes

She heard a voice from beyond the throes

«Punish him for the life he chose

But forgive the past that he did not»

It’s really hard to hate anyone

When you know what they’ve lived through

And once they’ve given you a taste

She said, «This is for you to overcome

But I will always love you»

In her perfect state of grace

Maybe that will crack the case

Now that we’re through with formalities

What is it you wanna ask of me?

I’ll answer open and honestly

Whatever that means

Finding out that we occupy

Somebody else’s opposing side

On the banks of some great divide

Two versions of a dream

Countless revisions of history

Tryin' to tell us the future

Between each commercial break

I wanna call off the cavalry

Declare no winners or losers

And forgive our shared mistakes

You can pick the time and place

Maybe that will crack the case