Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song You Are What You Love , by - Jenny Lewis. Release date: 23.04.2006
Song language: English
You Are What You Love |
| This is no great illusion |
| When I’m with you I’m looking for a ghost |
| Or invisible reasons |
| To fall out of love and run screaming from our home |
| Because we live in a house of mirrors |
| We see our fears and everything |
| Our songs, faces, and second hand clothes |
| But more and more we’re suffering |
| Not nobody, not a thousand beers |
| Will keep us from feeling so all alone |
| But you are what you love |
| And not what loves you back |
| That’s why I’m here on your doorstep |
| Pleading for you to take me back |
| The phone is a fine invention |
| It allows me to talk endlessly to you |
| About nothing disguising my intentions |
| Which I’m afraid, my friend, are wildly untrue |
| It’s a sleight of hand, a white soul band |
| The heart attacks I’m convinced I have |
| Every morning upon waking |
| To you I’m a symbol or a monument |
| Your rite of passage to fulfillment |
| But I’m not yours for the taking |
| But you are what you love |
| And not what loves you back |
| So I guess that’s why you keep calling me back |
| I’m fraudulent, a thief at best |
| A coward who paints a bullshit canvas |
| Things that will never happen to me But at arms length, it’s Tim who said |
| I’m good at it, I’ve mastered it Avoiding, avoiding everything |
| But you are what you love, Tim |
| And not what loves you back |
| And I’m in love with illusions |
| So saw me in half |
| I’m in love with tricks |
| So pull another rabbit out of your hat |