Til I Am Myself Again
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Song Notes:
"Definitely a travelin' song. During the era of that song (Casino), we'd been on the road for 5 years, doing 200 dates a year... doing everything we could because we'd quit our jobs maybe a year and a half earlier. So that song is about feeling fractured and it's a bit of a constant theme in that up ahead, if only you could get feeling right, you could sort everything out. At that point in our lives things were definitely the most tense - we had stretched the patience of people we were leaving behind as far as we could possibly stretch it. In my case, I kind of snapped and had to change what I was doing. At each point, the records embody a particular state of mind that you move through... I think the reason you continue to do it is that you start to realize the value of cataloguing these states of mind." - Jim Cuddy
Lyrics
I want to know where my confidence went
One day it all disappeared
And I'm lying in a hotel room miles away
Voices next door in my ear
Daytime's a drag
Nighttime worse
Hope that I can get home soon
But the half-finished bottles of inspiration
Lie like ghosts in my room
I want to go
I know I can't stay
But I don't want to run
Feeling this way
Til I am myself
Til I am myself
Til I am myself again
There's a seat on the corner I keep every night
Wait til the evening begins
I feel like a stranger from another world
But at least I'm living again
There are nights full of anger
Words that are thrown
Tempers that are shattered and thin
And the moments of magic
Are just too short
They're over before they begin
I know it's time
One big step
I can't go
I'm not ready yet
Til I am myself
Til I am myself
Til I am myself again
I had a dream that my house was on fire
People laughed while it burned
I tried to run but my legs were numb
I had to wait til the feeling returned
I don't need a doctor to figure it out
I know what's passing me by
When I look in the mirror
Sometimes I see traces of some other guy
I want to go
I know I can't stay
But I don't want to run
Feeling this way
Til I am myself
Til I am myself
Til I am myself again
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