"You Avoid Parties" lyrics

Isn't it nice how things resolve
To test your will
Would take the skill of crazy ants
You fit your mind into smaller and smaller jars
You find them clutching at a last straw
As if it's worth the worse for wear and tear you look

But why try to understand someone that you don't even know
Even though he brought you up
Beat you up
Shut you up when you cried

And now you avoid parties
Because they remind you
Of someone who
You used to know
Pretty soon you'll want to avoid yourself

A popular phrase from the same year
Would draw no cheer
Save for the fears of looking back
You find you hide for weaker and weaker reasons
The battle you lost in the end

Earned you no thanks
But wooden planks were soon withdrawn

And you couldn't run away
Even if you tried
And you tried
And you cried
'Cause you knew that laying flat in your parents' car

And now you avoid fathers
Because they remind you
Of someone who
You used to know
Pretty soon you'll want to avoid your own

And now you're finally on your own
You draw your choices from the voices you despise
You find you're drawn to tighter and tighter circles
Flashback flashes forward
You are insane though you have gained such wide appeal

And all the car rides
Cheap insides
Laughter with the right people
At the right time
At the right line
At the right frame of mind

And now you avoid thinking
Because it reminds you
Of someone who
You used to know
Pretty soon you'll only think about yourself