You Avoid Parties Lyrics - Singles - Posies

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 the 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 tears save for the fears of looking back 

You find you hide for weaker and weaker reasons 

The battle you lost in the mirror 

Earned you no thanks but wooden planks were soon withdrawn 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 father 

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 

Flashbacks, flashes forward 

You are insane though you have gained such wide appeal 

And all the car rides, cheap insides, laughter at the right people 

At the right time at the right line in the right frame of mind 

And now you avoid thinking 

Because it reminds you of someone you used to know 

Pretty soon you'll only think about yourself