Trial Of Errors Leftovers
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As with Trial Of Errors itself, I feel like my writing turned a corner with these leftovers.
I think this marks the first (and only) time I’ve felt like all the lyrics that didn’t make the cut for a grouping could’ve just as easily fit in perfectly. Maybe it’s because I hadn’t written for like a year before tackling Trial Of Errors, but I was very focused on everything and really zeroed in on what worked at the time.
Case in point, Safe (Katie’s Song) and White Rose were both considered for future projects but never topped the quality of these versions. I never bothered revisiting the rest because they were already set and captured the feeling from this period of time so well.
I do have one more thing called Self-Assured, but that’s in the Fireteddy National Library. It was never considered for the main grouping and might have been written afterwards actually.
Lyrics Content
01. Hospital Room
03. In Between
04. Time To Run
05. White Rose
Hospital Room
It gets so complicated
They’re only words
But now they’ve congregated
It’s so absurd
They say they know what’s best
They have a cure
They’ll go and run some tests
Until they’re sure
All we need is time
All we need is time
It gets so I can’t breathe
Stuck inside this room
I’d really like to leave
Get out of here soon
I feel so out of place
I’m sure you’d understand
It’s something in our fate
But now it’s in your hands
All we need is time
All we need is time
All we need is time
Baby we’ll be fine
Safe (Katie’s Song)
You’ve been swimming in the sea
With your water dampened hair
Wondering what we’d be
Trying to prepare
Do you care?
They say you’re nowhere
Losing train of thought
Pieces of your soul
To be fleeting when it’s caught
It leaves you in the cold
Buying what you’re sold
Well it’s time to lose control
So this love you feel
Can get you in real deep
With your thoughts revealed
To let them all repeat
But I know
Oh baby I know
We’ve been longing for a change
From the little things we’ve known
But I’ve never felt so strange
For the feelings I’ve condoned
It’s always overblown
Now it’s time to lose control
So this love you feel
Can get you in real deep
With your thoughts revealed
To let them all repeat
But you’ll see
You can open up to me
But you’ll see
You’re always safe with me
In Between
These sleepless nights
I struggle still
With thoughts of you
A bitter pill
These waking hours
To fall asleep
I’ll watch them cower
As lines repeat
I hear that you’ve been fading
But I’m not sure if I care
The days I spent in hibernating
When you were never really there
Baby, when I need you
You’re nowhere to be found
Baby, I still need you
And I need you here right now
Baby when I want you
You’re nowhere to be seen
Baby, I still want you
But I’m stuck here in between
Time To Run
Tired of always driving ‘round
Just to hear the same old sounds
Fuck it up to lose myself
Tried so hard to find some help
Nothing changes with these words
Lips all loosely overheard
Sinking ships to cover tracks
But now I’m never coming back
Getting tired of smoke and mirrors
It’s really all the same
Destructive words and passing sneers
I refuse to play this game
I refuse to play this game
Tired of all the politics
Blindside knives and all these tricks
Immature, they run the mile
It’s all they need to live awhile
Cut the drama, cut the fat
Where I’ve been ain’t where I’m at
Maybe I grew up too fast
But some things just aren’t meant to last
Getting tired of smoke and mirrors
It’s really all the same
Destructive words and passing sneers
I refuse to play this game
I refuse to play this game
It’s time to run, it’s time to run
Don’t stumble in strides or fall under the gun
It’s time to run, it’s time to run
Don’t stumble in strides, you can’t fool anyone
Getting tired of smoke and mirrors
It’s really all the same
Destructive words and passing sneers
I refuse to play this game
I refuse to play this game
White Rose
How could this be?
From calm to the storm
Get close to me
Can’t touch these thorns
Colourless beauty
But nobody knows
No more apologies
Well that’s how it goes
She’s another white rose
With a rubik’s cube heart
I tried solving the puzzle
But I was missing a part
There was a hole in the plot
One I always forgot
A fight with my conscience
I wonder who wins
I try to be honest
But I’m sure I’ll give in
Crying, love dying
Keep moving your baggage
With the art of denying
The world’s run you ragged
She’s another white rose
With a rubik’s cube heart
I tried solving the puzzle
But I was missing a part
There was a hole in the plot
One I always forgot
It was never enough
It was never enough
It was never enough for her
It was never enough
It was never enough
So now she can stay in the dirt
Now she can stay in the dirt