Frame for One
Jesse Marchant Lyrics

Why should I believe
I'm doubtful of your reliability

You would try
You would put in the effort

When I seen you
When I saw you

Long let go of your own life
Lost touch with your own aspirations

Pissing your time away on the phone
Wasting too much time on the phone

Like it's the stage for every side
As if it's the platform for all your opinions

You've never shown
You've never demonstrated

And not the frame for one
Not the appropriate attitude for someone

Who never would try
Who would never make an effort

Ain't no lie I've been running away
It's true that I've been avoiding

From every long idea of life and love
From any significant notion of love and life

For the way that so much pain
Because of the amount of pain

Always follows behind
Usually comes afterwards

Sitting alone out there
Being by myself outdoors

I had been doing just fine
I was coping well

Guess I still believe in love
I suppose I still have faith in love

Way I feel broken
The way I'm feeling devastated

In the sights of her crooked smile
Under the influence of her insincere grin

And if I'd been more of feather
If I had been more light-hearted

Than of bone
Rather than being heavy-hearted

When she had shed
When she had imparted

All of her light on me alone
All of her attention on me only

I wouldn't have been
I wouldn't be

So long thawing out
Taking so long to recover

Come my leave
Upon departing

I'd be rolling in a wave
I'll be enjoying the rhythm of waves

Always far out of reason
Devoid of logic

But I had one all the same
Regardless, I had a reason

Sooner or later
Eventually

It all came following behind
It all caught up with me

And then alone out there
And then, being by myself outside

I was just doing time
I was just passing time

In the twilight
In the dim light

With all my mending bones
With all my healing fractures

Still a hairline crack
Still a minor imperfection

In each one, give it time
In each one, it will need time to mend completely

But I was well tired of waiting
But I was very weary from waiting

When I leapt off my ship
When I took the plunge

Into the tide
Into the sea

Shit
Expressing frustration

Now the past lies there
Now the past is situated there

On an ocean
On the sea

To float on and die alone
To drift and perish by itself

And the wind blows it
And the wind carries it

Far out of mind
Beyond my thoughts

With the waves all bowing over
With the waves all cresting over

In a tunnel of time and its ghosts
In a passage of time and its memories

Maybe it will live on in my mind
Perhaps it will persist in my memory

Come my way
If it should happen to me

I'd been following a lie
I had been following a falsehood

Or been a long time leading it
Or had been leading it for a long time

It's foggy in my mind
It's unclear in my memory

So much pain
So much agony

I'd been blurring the lines
I had been confusing the boundaries

Under a mountain of weight
Beneath an enormous burden

In the calm of denial
During the tranquility of refusing to acknowledge

Couldn't stand it
Couldn't bear it any longer

Seeing you there alone
Observing you there by yourself

Through a crowd
Amidst a crowd

Of laughing people
Of people who are joyful

Sincere as a child
Honest like a youngster

Wish I knew how to hold on
I want to know how to persevere