D - Cover to Cover Lyrics

You read the book from cover to cover
You'd heard the words but not in that order
Who knows what they mean?
It's unknowable
You can't understand it
And why that way?
Let's be enigmatic
And stand for what you want us to
Selling blank canvases with titles and provenance
Let's be profound and say nothing

You have a memory but it's kind of sketchy
It comes in fragments you think may have happened
But then who's to say?
It's unreliable
You cannot rely on it
The found letter
Beautiful words
Enough to hold onto
God, she was in love with you
Who was she anyway?
Nothing's as it seems at the time
The memories are made and pulled out of the air
By the same addled mind that is telling you stories
She doesn't remember you either

You dress yourself in sack cloth and ashes
Saying, oh I'm so ineffectual
But what if you got a reaction while your head was down?
What does it really mean to take responsibility?
Does it mean it's your turn to jump off the bridge?
Do you have to reexamine everything that you did?
Breathe the air in the room you locked yourself in
While the picture sits there saying nothing