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Take Offense

from [songs a​.​] by Ian Carleton

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Written 2010.

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Take Offense

Take Offense
Ya been sittin on that fence
It's time now to get down
Take a look around
At all their anxious smiles
And their jealous frowns
I think ya got it bad
It's not what the doctors would say
But I would know better
Yea, I always have
And it makes it hard to forget
And worse to remember
But I still remember
And I love to be reminded
With every silence

The pattern repeats
Yea, you're still draggin your feet
You're just goin through the motions
And you're laugin loud
Laughin along with the crowd
But ya can't tell what the joke was
Well I think the jokes on you
Your conscience all stapled and glued
Your dreams all compromises
Ya say ya want some truth
Yea well its been starin at you
But ya went and closed your eyelids
And then ya turned the corner
And that silence that you always avoid
Becomes the street noise

So wake up from that dream, it was just a bad one.
The laughter's not what it seems.
The joke's a really sad one.

And now you're back around
As sure as the leaves hit the ground
With the change of season
Ya say ya been alone
And ya made the silence a home
Ya got somethin to believe in
And it's not a prayer
And it's not a name or a code
It's more just a feeling
And it was always there
But then ya became so aware
Ya went right through the ceiling
Now you're left to wonder
How it ever took ya so long
To not want to belong

So please wake up from that dream,
yea it was just a bad one.
The laughter's not what it seems.
The joke's a really sad one.
It a sad one.

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from [songs a​.​], released February 22, 2012
JBS Recordings

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Ian Carleton New York, New York

Born 1987 in NY, NY.

I count myself among the lucky.

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