Plain Letters - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

It always shows up at your door

When you least expect it to

Old wounds from your youth

Reintroduce themselves to you

Well, do your best impression of yourself

A watered down version of the way it felt

To be unrecognized, misunderstood, and spelled out

In plain letters

The camera’s always on the wrong side of the glass

Is there ever a flattering angle of the facts?

Well, do your best impression of yourself

A box within a box in a storage cell

Those who tell you what you are, poke an insect in a jar

And put it on your name tag

In plain letters

How does it look when it dries in pen

On your eyes, on your heart, on your emptiness?

Well, you can’t be surprised by what you’ve come to expect

I hope you find a weakness that you’re stronger than

You’ve got a case of winter that no one’s ever seen

Is that a new bandage on your knees?

Did anybody ask you what was wrong

Or did they stare at you strange

When you asked where you belonged?

You know you can't defeat it, so you run out to greet it

But it looks like a stop sign

In plain letters

How does it look when it dries it in pen

On your eyes, on your heart, on your emptiness?

Well, you can’t be surprised by what you’ve come to expect

I hope you find a weakness that you’re stronger than

It’s an illiterate feeling and a slow healing

Your world spins like a planet on your ceiling

And I wish it was enough to convince you of yourself

But it can’t be said in plain letters

In plain letters

Plain letters