The Truth I Tell Myself

You don't have to tell me that I'm stubborn Cause I'm not And I know 'cause it runs in my family And skips every other generation You don't have to save my soul Or make me feel like I'm in control It's not worth the double scotch whiskey that you'd have to buy me You look like you're surprised Like when will I get wise But I'll just drive the same dead ends I've tried And I think I know why There's no connection between what I want And what is good for me The truth I tell myself not to believe Yeah I know I could have been some thin' But I'm not and I know that it's somebody else's fault Just like every other thing that's ever happened to me Yeah I could have been like the king Like someone who could really sing Folks line up round the corner just so they could come n' hear me Oh there I go again Them devils love their sin But they can't end what I do not begin So I'm safe where I'm in There's no connection between what I want And what is good for me The truth I tell myself not to believe There's no direction between where I am And where I'm supposed to be The truth I tell myself not to believe Yeah don't think that I'm expecting you to stay 'Cause you won't And I know 'cause I've seen it a million times This is charming self destructive disposition of mine Yeah I know those happy endings are for fools Who feel like they will never loose Folks who think there's a God out there that's gonna save them I'll get this round my friend And then we can start again Just like we did when we were who we are Have we come that far There's no connection between what I want And what is good for me The truth I tell myself not to believe There's no direction between where I am And where I'm supposed to be The truth I tell myself not to believe