Friday, February 4, 2000

LYRICS - Is It Someone Else?


2-4-00.1
by Emma Johnson
#568

LYRICS:

When writing is your best friend
and the days seem to fly by
seasons change and come back around
you’re still asking why
to the same questions/
that don’t have answers
things change but it’s still the same
you go to parties
and realize you don’t know anyone/
as well anymore
why is it that I came?
Another day
of random happenings
I try to make it fit together
in a log-i-cal way
but more often than not
I just give up
I may not be logical
but I’ll be o.k.

Things are moving around me
But every year I think the same way
People are changing around me
You’re not the same person I knew yesterday
Events are taking place inside me
I can hear my own voice
unrecognizable to me --
I forget that I control my actions
but do I really, or IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?
                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?
                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?


In sixth grade I was the same person
my thoughts mature
for my time
Now maybe
my peers will pass me
I’ll be adolescent forever
until I die.
Sometimes I wish I could watch
the future
fast-forwarding through
the X-rated parts
my life is too adult for me
I’m too immature to be my-self.
Every event foreshadows
every foreshadowing event to come
everything is obvious/
but we don’t see it -- we’re all too dumb

Things are moving around me
But every year I think the same way
People are changing around me
You’re not the same person I knew yesterday
Events are taking place inside me
I can hear my own voice
unrecognizable to me --
I forget that I control my actions
but do I really, or IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?
                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?
                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?


I wonder if I know you
probably not because you don’t know yourself
have I ever known you?
the person you were was just leading to
something else
The people of the past are forgotten
because they cease to exist an-y more
you deny you were once someone else
you’re embarrassed because it’s not you an-y more.
But it is still with you
Somewhere in the back of your mind
Someday you’ll retrieve it
but that day will be another time.

Everybody/ in this town
has known everybody/ at one time
now you’re a stran-/ ger and i’m
everybody in this town

Things are moving around me
But every year I think the same way
People are changing around me
You’re not the same person I knew yesterday
Events are taking place inside me
I can hear my own voice
unrecognizable to me --
I forget that I control my actions
but do I really, or IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?
                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?
                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?


Things are moving around me
But every year I think the same way
People are changing around me
You’re not the same person I knew yesterday
Events are taking place inside me
I can hear my own voice
unrecognizable to me --
I forget that I control my actions
but do I really, or IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?
                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?
                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?
                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?
     IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?
     IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

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