What Was Really Me Lyrics - Indigo Girls

I should have never crossed your path 

Funny how the things you want the most 

Should soon be taken back 

Slap my own hands like a child 

Stealing from the candy store 

I think I've taken to your smile 

And I hunger for your laugh 

Do the craziest things like look around 

When I know you're nowhere near me 

Break my back on a song 

Though I know you're not there to hear it 

Unanswered questions lying on the coffee table 

From a song I haven't finished since last summer 

Because I never could decide how much was gin 

And how much the sea 

Or other incidentals clouding what was really me 

Everything I am is bare feet and burning sand 

Waiting for the calm cool hand of the sea 

A madman of emotions waiting for the drug effect 

Of the reason and the intellect to comfort me 

Half the time I love you like I love the fall's first breeze 

And then you seem as distant to me as the skeletons of trees 

Far away outside my window 

But inside I think of you 

As if I thouht hard enough I'd know which way to turn 

And what to do. 

I'm quite sure I'll be alright 

We all live with some distraction 

It's just too bad mine will hang around 

All day and night 

Like an uninvited guest 

You can't turn away, try hard as you might 

Lord knows, I've tried 

I might let it go and take a long long run 

Quit my job and join the coastline baking in the sun 

(My tape cuts off here.) 

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