SCOTT TOFTE

Everything I Am

Written by: Scott Tofte

Published by: Wrong Decade Music (ASCAP)

Recorded:  "Everything I Am (Single)" 2022 / "Only Stars" by After The Echo, 2023

I can’t understand it

It’s taken me a while

I never could've planned it

You know it ain’t my style  

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You don’t have a reason

And I can’t find the rhyme

Trigger-finger treason

Seems to happen all the time

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Everything I am, everything I Was

Doesn’t seem to matter much ‘til it does

Everything I say, everything I did

Everything was perfect til you chimed in

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Every little worry

Floating through brain

Brings back such a flurry

Of unnecessary pain

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Did you ever wonder? 

Did you even care? 

Did you drag me under 

Just to hide your skeletons down there

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Everything I am, everything I was

Doesn’t seem to matter much ‘til it does

Everything I say, everything I do

Everything’s a lie except for when it’s the truth

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Everything I am, everything I was

Doesn’t seem to make a difference until it does

Everything I trust, everything I dig

Everything was fine until you did what you did

Yeah you claim a life of virtue

Until someone out there hurts you

And instead following your holy book

You cut ‘em til they’re bleeding

Then you slander them in readings

Then you crucify them, vilify them

Don’t bother with a second look

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Everything I am, everything I was

Doesn’t seem to matter much ‘til it does

Everything I say, everything I do

Everything’s a lie except for when it’s the truth

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Everything I trust, everything I dig

Everything was fine until you did what you did