Nigel Wright - You Can Be Clever Lyrics

Don't overthink it
Suffer through
You can be clever now
Or you can be true
Look how far you've gotten
Trying to mix the two

You bury it better
To stay intact
As soon as you walk away
I'll turn you back
I'll carve you with a river
I'll make your insides unwell
I will soften your shell

You can stop pretending
You can stop pretending
You can stop pretending
That this is how it ends

I get it backwards
Every time
Though I say the words
Act like I'm fine
I can't make a living
Telling more ghost stories
Now I see

Given the effort
It would take
Is the friend I imagine one
I could make
Now I'm quarter past
The outline of the whole
Might as well just stay home

You can stop pretending
You can stop pretending
You can stop pretending
That this is how it ends