(I Am) What I Am Not

Idlewild · The Remote Part [2002]

Calling places, collecting careless

Sentences I write them down

So I ignore them, and you should too

You should ignore every word

Calling what you can surrender

Is the only way to really learn

That the alphabet made up the words

You could never resist to quote



If all this wisdom is true

Then I doubt it could really

Have come from you



Then I am what I am not

I am what I am not

So there must be something more than

If I am just a thought I'm not



Faster than the destination

Of knowing where you really are

Is where you've always been

Or is it where you began?

And happiness, did it happen

Sooner than the doubt it cost you

You learn from the mistakes that I taught you



If all this wisdom is true

Then I doubt it could really

Have come from you



Then I am what I am not

I am what I am not

So there must be something more than

I am what I am not

If there's nothing more than

I am what I am not

I am what I am not

There must be something more than

If I am what I am not



Then I am what I am not

I am what I am not

There must be something more than

I am what I am not

I know there's nothing more than

I am what I am not

I am what I am not

If there's nothing more than

If I am what I am not