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Common Impressions

from Direct & Discreet EP by Conductors

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To think of how you think of me
Is embarrassing

To think of what you think of me
Is befuddling, confusing

To think of if you think of me
Is frightening

To think of you thinking of me
Is still enticing

To see exactly how someone else sees
Seems to be more difficult than living in the sea

But what if everyone thinks exactly the same?
What if those walls are only in our brains
What an awful, convoluted game.
What a shame to feel the same
only in the dark of our heart.

I am afraid of how I appear,
And I don’t trust the mirror.

In the end what you think of me
Is what I am, how belittling, how befitting

But how can I trust your faulty memory?
Then again how do I know my memory is trustworthy?



Is it as strange and rare as it seems
to admit to our thoughts and our dreams?
I don’t want to admit it.

I know expressed affection is an exception
It’s in the dark of our perception.
And there’s no limit to our capacity for lying.
It doesn’t even take trying.

Is it strange to be the reason
for another person’s living?
It must be, but did you ever know?
How often do we know?

I keep seeing so many people that I could be
And maybe some of them you are, I am
O you can define me, it’s fine, yes you can
Define me, please make me a man.
I think of you, I want you to know
I don’t want to be ashamed
I want to know your real name.

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from Direct & Discreet EP, released December 31, 2012

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"Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line
She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine
An’ I said, 'Oh, I didn’t know that
But then again, there’s only one I’ve met
An’ he just smoked my eyelids
An’ punched my cigarette' " ... more

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