Strange Loop - Paul Dempsey

Now if you weren’t such a sucker

For finishing everything you started up

And if I weren’t beside myself

There’d be just the two of us

I made the gruesome discovery

That everybody else was right about me and now the whistle has been blown

And I’ve been diagnosed

With a heart that’s a known unknown

So tell me, baby, what’s so good

About being understood?

I would be terrified if I could read your mind

And the real me

You couldn’t even identify

So this is what you get

This is what you get

Now I can’t wait

There’s so much I don’t want to tell you

And there’s so much that you don’t want me to see

And darling there’s so much you’d like to change

If you were me

But if you were me I’d give me a piece of your mind

A self-portrait peering through the polygraph lines

There’s no photogenic feelings, no rich inner life

Just a strange loop

And I’m once, twice, a thousand times removed

So tell me, baby, what’s so good

About feeling understood?

Now my time might be a joke but it

Never gets old

And my true self was beyond help

Long ago

So this is what you get

This is what you get

Now if you weren’t such a sucker

For being there when I need you

I would be terrified

If I could read your mind

So tell me, baby, what’s so good

About being understood?