Turn On Me - the Shins

You can fake it for a while

Bite your tongue and smile

Like every mother does her ugly child

But it starts to leaking out

Like spittle from a cloud

Amassed resentment pelting ounce and pound

You entertaining any doubt

Cause you had to know that I was fond of you

Fond of Y-O-U

Though I knew you masked your disdain

I can see the change was just too hard for us

Hard for us

You always had to hold the reigns

But where I’m headed, you just don’t know the way

So affections fade away

Or do adults just learn to play

The most ridiculous, repulsive games

All our favorite ruddy sons

And their double-barreled guns

You’d better hurry rabbit, run, run, run

Cause mincing you is fun

And there’s a lot of hungry hatters in this world set on taking it over

But brittle, thorny stems

They break before they bend

And neither one of us is one of them

And the tears will never mend

Cause you had it in for me so long ago

Boy, I still don’t know

I don’t know why and I don’t care

Well, hardly anymore

If you’d only seen yourself hating me

Hating me

When I’d been so much more than fair

But then you’d have to lay those feelings bare

One thing I know has still got you scared

Yeah, all that cold ire

And never once aired on a dare

You had to know that I was fond of you

Fond of Y-O-U

So I took your licks at the time

And a change like that is just so hard to do

Hard to do

Don’t let it whip-crack your life

And I’ll bow out from the fight

Those old pious sisters were right

The worst part is over

Now get back on that horse and ride