"We Are Both Writers" lyrics

Reacclimate to my surroundings
Back in a city that just seems to eat itself
And all I really wanna do is
Get back into you
No tension, no worries
But every time it comes around I find grey ways to let you down
I can't control my instincts

Why can't I be happy just to call you a friend?

I thought things could be different
Maybe I could do some good
Come home spent to unemploy a past from Hollywood

Some things can change everything despite their rights and wrongs
I'm getting reacquainted with my lower self
Redhead, teach me compassion from your fragrant continent
While you're at it, you can resurrect my family
While you're at it, you can summon Christ and part the seas
While you're at it, you can pulverize my chemicals
I'm so sick of trying to fight my body
And you
At the same time

I am righteous in my anger!
All I have to give you is my lower self
I will sing of how we made love like strangers
And all I have to sell you is my lower self
Oh, how you are as petty as the post-punk kids you pity
How you swear by the myth that you're not beautiful
And nothing ever seems to work the way that it gets planned
So we turn away from everyone that loves us
Hypnotized by waves, our lives are deer blocking the lane
We can just sit back and watch it all go up in flames
Till every note, every chord sounds the same
It goes "boom boom boom boom boom" on my ego
It goes "boom boom boom boom boom," but I don't mind it anymore
'Cause it can only go "boom boom boom" for so long
Until it hurts you more than it hurts me

And nothing ever seems to work the way that it gets planned
So, I turn away from everything that hurts me
Climb back into a cloud of smoke, my face close to the flame
Cameras pulling back and leaving you left off the frame
It's a party and you're not invited