American Trilogy Lyrics - Singles - The Delgados

I became accustomed to a kind of social servitude 

and no one, I mean no one, could accept what I had become 

Selfish, bitter, weak 

Enough to make you sick 

And lately, I've been feeling there are bits of life I'm stealing 

Get me home 

At times it seems I will not help 

but it's just that I must save myself 

from fear that blankets me like mist 

on an optimist who insists 

it's the simple things that crush 

and I'm crying far too much 

so much so that I'm thinking my control on life is shrinking 

There's a light on in my head and I'm thinking what I said 

All the freedom in my brain, I'm alright now 

I'm just thinking what to say 

Sorry doesn't seem to wash 

when there's truths around that I have quashed 

and no one, I mean no one, can depress me more than I can 

So does that make me weak or should that make me sick? 

But lately I've been feeling that I'm gonna give up breathing 

There's a light on in my head and I'm thinking what I said 

All the fever in my brain, I'm alright now 

I can even take the pain 

There's a light on in my head and I'm thinking what I said 

All the fever in my brain, I'm alright now 

I can even take the pain