emmylou

try to live like this forever

love my mom and

even my ambition had

to write itself in black

yeah

i know

it sounded right

and helped my mother sleep at night

but everything to everyone

to you wasn't enough

you could see through

i could

too

emmylou

all the love i have in me

i understand how i could be

a terrible example when

i take my own advice

i am not the victim

here

and i am not the enemy

so why did i design for you

a face to place your sympathy?

i'll do any fantasy

but nothing that could seem to be

i know this from the agony

because i don't know how

i believe in common sense

and maybe with coincidence

but i don't believe in heaven

so i have to have you now

you could see through

i could

too

emmylou