The Next Step to Regaining Control
i knew that you wouldn't change, but i bit my tongue and swore,
resigned myself to carry on despite you.
but you would not match my stride and cried,
"foul! foul! how could you expect me to care about somebody else?"
and after all, who would expect anything else from you?
you would not apologize for what you claimed you'd never do.
you guard your hand like there is something brilliant
waiting to play itself off.
and when you move to strike, everything will fall into place.
but i'll call your bluff. i know you're all talk.
and when the words come out
there will be nothing left but promises.
i wanted it to be different, to see truth where it did not fit.
but the harder i looked, the farther you seemed from it.
there is a cadence here, i guess, for every measured misstep.
i put one foot forward and you take two steps back.
so just say what you want.
resigned myself to carry on despite you.
but you would not match my stride and cried,
"foul! foul! how could you expect me to care about somebody else?"
and after all, who would expect anything else from you?
you would not apologize for what you claimed you'd never do.
you guard your hand like there is something brilliant
waiting to play itself off.
and when you move to strike, everything will fall into place.
but i'll call your bluff. i know you're all talk.
and when the words come out
there will be nothing left but promises.
i wanted it to be different, to see truth where it did not fit.
but the harder i looked, the farther you seemed from it.
there is a cadence here, i guess, for every measured misstep.
i put one foot forward and you take two steps back.
so just say what you want.
Credits
Writer(s): Keith Patrick Latinen
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Other Album Tracks
- How to Make Love Stay
- Keep What You Have Built Up Here
- What Safe Means
- It Happened Because You Left
- Rally the Troops! Poke Holes in Their Defenses! Line Our Coffers With Their Coffins!
- It's a Plague, And You're Invited
- Everything Is Connected and Everything Matters (A Temporary Solution to a Permanent Problem)
- The Next Step to Regaining Control
- With Your Greatest Fears Realized, You Will Not Be Comforted
- I Am a Snail, And You Are a Pace I Cannot Match
Altri album
- Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) & Joie De Vivre [Split Version]
- You Will Eventually Be Forgotten
- In Which the Choices We Didn't Make Were Better Than the Ones That We Did - Single
- In Which the Choices We Didn't Make Were Better Than the Ones That We Did
- Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)/Malegoat Split
- On Time Spent Waiting, or Placing the Weight of the World On the Shoulders of Those You Love the Most
- Middle Discography
- Home After Three Months Away
- Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)/ Into It. Over It. [Split] - Single
- Early Discography
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