Name: A Declaration of Truth About Love
Duration: P00H03M11S
Description: Originally recorded c. 2006

A Declaration of Truth About Love

from A Declaration of Truth About Love by The Brake Lights

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Originally recorded c. 2006

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They’ll never tell you why
No, they’ll never give you the truth!
Then they drill their alibis
At the mouths of their excuses

As they outline your insides
Like drafting a map, or something

But then you yawn under an awning
waving me onwards towards collapse
But if it’s a matter of things to have
if it’s a matter of chemicals interacting, well then…

I would rather love someone I know I’ll never have
Than have someone I know I’ll never love!
I’d rather be with no one
Than with someone just barely good enough!

I trace the paper night streets
From under the waning moon hangin' above me
I use its light to trace the lines in my face completely
I face the paper in great defeat!

As the streets, they shake me off, get up and leave!
I shake the shit from off my sleeves!
I shake away the sham of disbelief!

Because I would rather love someone I know I’ll never have
Than have someone I know I’ll never love!
I’d rather be with no one
Than with someone just barely good enough!

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from A Declaration of Truth About Love, released April 20, 2020
Written and performed by Jason Eric Jensen at Tilton St with assistance from Dan Casey.

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The Brake Lights is a high ABV rock and roll concoction brewed by composer Jason Eric Jensen in the hills of Vermont, USA.

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