If Life Imitates Art Lyrics

If life imitates art

And I write you into my songs again

Would I hear your knock on my door?

Could we get somehow to before?

If life imitates art

Could I summon you through a rhyme or two?

Would you be ready to move on?

Try to right our mutual wrongs?

Shit, yeah, I'm sorry for colorful language

Fuck no, I still meant everything that I said

Including that I think you're a good man with misunderstandings

Hell, I know too well that I can exhaust you

You said I couldn't, but seems like I lost you

If I could just triple squeeze your hand and stick this one landing

I paint the end with what I've got

Blood, sweat and tears inside a pot

And promises for things I'm not

Smeared on a canvas that's been used

Just take a step back from the wall

I hang it up, you make it fall

A painter's too much, you choose a doll

But does that doll really know you?

If life imitates art

And I made a film before I got ill

About how you shook me awake

Offered love that this time I'd take

If life imitates art

Could the accolades be a promise made

That I'd do the best that I could?

Would we restore a loverhood?

Shit, yeah, I know that I swear like a sailor

Fuck no, I can't accept that we're a failure

And that we just won't get a second chance

At clueless romancing

Hell, I know too well your pride can't be swallowed

You said it could, but it's still there in your throat

It showers the songs you write for the band

And your subtle glancing

I shoot the end with what I have

A lead actress who tends to go mad

Cracked lenses I got from my dad

Entered in festivals for fools

I win Best Documentary

Your girl acts scripts I used to read

So the art gets made as more people meet

And you're just someone that I knew

And you're just someone that I knew

And you're just someone that I knew

And you're just someone that I knew

And you're just someone that I knew

But who's the artist and who's the muse?

But who's the lighter and who's the fuse?

But who's the judge and who pays the dues?

But who's the victim and who's the ruse?

But who's the choice and who gets to choose?

Who's like a drug and who needs the booze?

But who's the story and who breaks the news?

But who's the loss and who's got things to lose?

And you're just someone that I knew

And you're just someone that I knew

And you're just someone that I knew

And you're just someone