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When I Sing
from If I Could Live Long Enough by Tobin Mueller
WRiting
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Lyrics

Why do I lie when I sing?
What is it that music brings?
Hidden in rhyme, all the the things,
The jagged lines that still sting...

Polished a clean
All the bright melodies.
Why do I lie to myself?
Why won't I try to simply tell it?

It's not that I don't believe.
It's that I don't seem to need to anymore.
It's not that I want to be free of it.
It's just that I can't....

Can't recall what the truth is.
Can't recall, so I sing.

It's not that I won't believe.
Sometimes it's caught on the tip of my tongue.
It's not that I need to be free of it.
It's just that I can't....

Don't remind me. Don't remind me.
Don't remind me of all I've done wrong.
I have not forgotten that.
No, I have not forgotten that...

Standing here at the mirror
Like a ghost at the door.

I used to question. I used to ask.
I used to bother. I used to look between the masks.

It's not that I don't believe.
It's that I don't seem to need to anymore.
It's not that I want to be free of it.
It's just that I can't....

I've tried to capture it all on paper.
I've crumpled all of it up and it away.
The trash man comes tomorrow anyway;
He haul it away.

It's not that I don't believe.
It's that I don't seem to need to anymore.
It's not that I want to be free of it,
Except when I sing....

©2005 TOBIN MUELLER

Liner Notes

Written on Cape Cod, this song came after listening to a ton of David Crosby and Jackson Browne. I was thinking about how to make a meta-song: a song that made "the song" into a metaphor. I wrote it under the working title "House of Cards" but never worked the phrase into the lyrics.

I first relased this song as an ending to my September 11 Project - Ten Years Later.

If I Could Live Long Enough

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Other lyrics pages from If I Could Live Long Enough

  1. If I Could Live Long Enough
  2. Before There Were Gods
  3. Pilgrim Of The Great Return
  4. Was There Once A Time
  5. Forge A New Life
  6. Falling
  7. Turn It Around
  8. When I Sing
  9. A Promise
  10. The Shape Of My Life
  11. When You Awake
  12. When You Awake reprise
  13. EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACKS:
  14. You Can't Touch Me
  15. Rock A Baby With Voodoo
  16. Believe
  17. Lucky Boy Blues
  18. Tango
  19. What Is This Touch