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How Wrong

from Familiar Failure by Conductors

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Did I play it all wrong?
Did I make the wrong moves?
Was I moving all wrong?
Did I make the wrong plays?

Did I say the wrong thing
or was it said all wrong?
Was I speaking all wrong?
Was it one wrong word?

Was it one wrong word
or was it just misheard?
Misheard or unobserved,
was the sentence sentenced?

Was the whole thing wrong
or just one little part?
Was it wrong in its heart
or did it just look wrong?

Ain't always obvious
when you make a mistake.
Not so necessary
that you learn at all.
You're only sure to wonder, wonder, wonder,
and wonder some more.

It may be better
when it's glaring.
Now none of this matters
and we know that well.
Still we're so bothered,
under a spell.
It hurts to regret,
hurts more not to know.

Did we play it all wrong?
Did we make the wrong moves?
Were we moving all wrong?
Did we make the wrong play?

Was it wrong off the bat
or in the long run?
Was it wrong in the run
or wrong right away?

Were we given a chance
or ignored at first glance?
By chance, ignored
or judged and abhorred?

Is there someone at fault
or is it just circumstance?
Are we victims of chance
or is the fault all our own?

Criticizing seems fun
when you're so sure.
It goes on and on and on
then things get obscured.

You can't criticize
when you're mystified.
You only wonder how long
can everything seem so wrong.

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from Familiar Failure, released April 1, 2015

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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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