That's Just The Way That I Feel

Album: Purple Mountains (2019)
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  • Well, I don't like talkin' to myself
    But someone's gotta say it, hell
    I mean, things have not been going well
    This time I think I finally fucked myself
    You see, the life I live is sickening
    I spent a decade playing chicken with oblivion
    Day to day, I'm neck and neck with giving in
    I'm the same old wreck I've always been

    And when I see her in the park
    It barely merits a remark
    How we stand the standard distance
    Distant strangers stand apart

    Course I've been humbled by the void
    Much of my faith has been destroyed
    I've been forced to watch my foes enjoy
    Ceaseless feasts of schadenfreude
    And as the pace of life keeps quickening
    Beneath the bitching and the bickering
    When I try to drown my thoughts in gin
    I find my worst ideas know how to swim

    Well, a setback can be a setup
    For a comeback if you don't let up
    But this kind of hurtin' won't heal
    And the end of all wanting
    Is all I've been wanting
    And that's just the way that I feel

    I met failure in Australia
    I fell ill in Illinois
    I nearly lost my genitalia
    To an anthill in Des Moines
    I was so far gone in Fargo
    South Dakota got annoyed
    That's the shit I'm talkin' 'bout
    When I talk to you about
    Ceaseless feasts of schadenfreude

    And a setback can be a setup
    For a comeback if you don't let up
    But this kind of hurtin' won't heal
    And the end of all wanting
    Is all I've been wanting
    The end of all wanting
    Is all I've been wanting
    The end of all wanting
    Is all I've been wanting
    And that's just the way that I feel Writer/s: David Berman
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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