Amethyst

from Piece of Mind by The Careless Whisperer

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lyrics

I am not an easy man to live with
I am not an easy man to love

I am not the kind of man to change his ways or change his mind
Just because you don’t agree doesn’t have to mean I’m wrong

Your thoughts are yours, my thoughts are mine
But we can share, that’s why they’re there
You don’t have to like my thoughts
I keep them locked up in the box that is my mind
I hold the key, there is no copy
I do the things my life has taught me
Make the choices fate’s presented
Logic dictates all my actions
Like Pavlov’s dogs, I hear a bell
My mind tells me what to expect
The actions of the ones I’ve loved
Have taught me to learn to reject
Reject love, reject affection
Reject before I face rejection

I am my own double edged sword

I am not an easy man to live with
I am not an easy man to love

And I am sorry for that but believe in what I have to say
That I do hate that I’m this way
I hate the hate I hate to feel
I hate that all this hate is real
I hate believing that there’s only wicked demons all around me
Sneering, jeering, instilling fear in me like an injection to the veins
And injection of ice
Chilling my heart but burning my soul
An actor, lost in his own role

I am not an easy man to live with
And I am not an easy man to love

But that doesn’t mean don’t try
Like amethyst, I’m rough and rigid
Not much to look at, cold and faded
But crack me open, take a look inside
…you just might be surprised.

credits

from Piece of Mind, released December 22, 2014
Produced by: TCW
Recorded at ETHQ Studios in Columbia, SC
Property of Eventide Entertainment
Album Art by: Robert F. Yetter III