my attempt at the lyrics
verse one:
well staving off rejection has always hurt like hell
i took the devils bargain made a stranger of myself
if anything was wrong i couldnt tell
so i didnt see you coming but now its pretty clear
i traded my own wisdom for a jury of my peers
i ignored you for thirty years
chorus:
you dont have to tell me
how hard it mustve been
for you to let me in
nothing lasts forever
now i understand
i heard you again
my quietest friend
verse two:
the sacred and the monsoon they were forever telling jokes
they were making you the punchline of some random thing i wrote
they were looking for me to land the final fall
just then the ____ went straight up to my head
i thought the joke too stupid for it no matter what i said
i was alone but i wasnt alone with it
chorus:
you dont have to tell me
how hard it mustve been
for you to let me in
nothing lasts forever
now i understand
i heard you again
my quietest friend
verse three:
we could write this song - remind them
i memorized them
i could sing them to myself
or whoevers listening
i could put them on a record
about my hometown
sitting here with pen and paper
im mixing them now