Lyrics Jenny Lewis – You Are What You Love

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This is no great illusion
When I’m with you, I’m looking for a ghost

‘Cause we live in a house of mirrors
We see our fears and everything
Our songs, faces, and secondhand clothes
But more and more we’re suffering
Not nobody, not a thousand beers
Will keep us from feeling so all alone

But you are what you love
And not what loves you back
That’s why I’m here on your doorstep
Pleading for you to take me back

And the phone is a fine invention
It allows me to talk endlessly to you
About nothing disguising my intentions
Which I’m afraid, my friend, are wildly untrue

It’s a sleight of hand, a white soul band
The heart attacks I’m convinced I have
Every morning upon waking
To you, I’m a symbol or a monument
Your rite of passage to fulfillment
But I’m not yours for the taking

But you are what you love
And not what loves you back
So I guess that’s why you keep calling me back

I’m fraudulent, a thief at best

But you are what you love, Tim
Not what loves you back
And I’m in love with illusions
So saw me in half
I’m in love with tricks
So pull another rabbit out your hat