I'm settling a hope

And I'm writing down directions

Inviting you to look

Because it's so much easier to humor your sense of obligation

Than to borrow what you took

These certainties I've kept

But I can count them on my fingers

I used to borrow what you took from me

These subtleties you've missed when you should have paid attention

But you were taught to overlook these things

All of these things

It was a flashlight in the waning moonlight

You were torn by your instincts

And the threat of a fluke

You should have run with what you took

You should havе run with what you took

Far away from all of these things

But I just scribble down a notе

It's in response to my directions

And I'm tempted to overlook this time

But pride can be a senseless backdrop to your sense of obligation

And you've been ready to respond for some time

To all of these things

It was a flashlight in the waning moonlight

You were torn by your instincts

And the threat of a fluke

You should have run with what you took

You should have run

But now I'm just settling this hope

And I'm writing down directions

Inviting you to look

'Cause it's so much easier to humor your sense of obligation

Than to borrow what you took

I used to borrow what you took