Mea Culpa

from This Could All Be So Easy by These Five Years

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lyrics

Always culpable,
wasted inside my skull,
Did I let you down again?
And do I always let you down?

Now should I
say I’m sorry
say I’ll change and
say I’m not indifferent, and not complacent.
I hope I say the right things.

Not solemn, or grandiose,
Prosaic or overblown -
to justify uncertainties,
should I say anything at all?

Mea culpa, I am human
Broken, breathless
bruised, on borrowed time //
apologetic, unpoetic, still so fallible.
Are we incomplete together?
(We are imperfect together)
Mea culpa, I am moving
from this self-reproach.

Will you take me as I am?
Make do and mend
these passing hours.
Embed ourselves in flowers,
we’re all caught up in thorns.
We are withdrawn, we are scorned
by our reflections,
and the eyes that stare back
the truths we invent

Mea culpa, I am human
Broken, breathless
bruised, on borrowed time.
Apologetic, unpoetic, still so fallible.
Are we incomplete together.
We are imperfect together
Mea culpa, I am moving
from this self-reproach.

I wanted kindness to save us,
for dreams to sustain us.
Instead of stumbling,
just slumbering
and drifting into doubt.

It’s my fault
it’s my fault
it’s my most grievous fault
I say sorry
Say sorry
I am always sorry
I’m done with feeling sorry

We are incomplete together
We are imperfect together

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from This Could All Be So Easy, released September 27, 2019

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