Your Own Worst Enemy

In the pink, in the flush of life Run away from yourself (run away from yourself) Mustn't think, mustn't contemplate Playing havoc with your health I can't believe your double meanings I didn't think you had those leanings I must've been a bitter disappointment to you Here comes that horrible feeling You're your own worst enemy My words just bounce off the ceiling Here we go again, hide the anger, let's pretend Pepper me with alternatives Nothing genuine to say Just a lapse into bad taste You could call it snobbery I can't believe your double meanings I didn't think you had those leanings I can't believe your hidden meanings It's hard work, all this deceiving Here comes that horrible feeling You're your own worst enemy My words just bounce off the ceiling Here we go again, hide the anger, let's pretend Don't try to turn me away now There is nothing we can't see Too many voices at play now To surrender the part of me that won't leave it be I need you to tell me a story So that I can get some sleep Choose something valedictorian Here comes that horrible feeling You're your own worst enemy My words just bounce off the ceiling You're your own worst enemy Don't try to scare me away now There is nothing we can't see Too many voices at play now To surrender the part of me that won't leave it be