One little word with
Two complications and
Three ways to explain it
You're impossibly contradicting in just about everything
Four interchanging phrases
Five keywords keep me chained to you
And there's nothing I can do
The six choices you bestow all lead to the same muddy hole so
Seventh heaven can't you see
This eight ball that you've given me
The nine sided die is broken inside
Cause all the answers just say no
I'm trying to know, to understand
To count ten blessings on me hand
But the eleven possessions possess my mind
Stronger than twelve heroes I can find and
Thirteen's unlucky
Fourteen was just two of the same
Fifteen not much happened
But sixteen I nearly went insane so
Seventeen, please be good to me
Please be better than all the rest
And if you can't I'll just wait for eighteen
credits
from Too Afraid to Say It,
released April 1, 2017
Mastered by Tim Flynn at AudioWall Studios
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