The Thing About Things Lyrics - Singles - Amanda Palmer

i've loaned a lot of things to a lot of friends 

like dresses and records and books 

and some of the time i never see them again 

and in a weird way i think that it works 

because the thing about things is they start turning evil 

when you start to forget what they're for 

and so if you're not sure what you did with my sweater 

i'll just try to love you a little bit more 

i had a ring it belonged to my grandfather 

he was a mason 

and gay 

and he was distant and bitter for all of my childhood 

and we never had much to say 

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he wasn't the type to give tokens of affection 

and so i stole ring when he died 

and twenty years later when i lost it at a bar 

i thought 

that's fine 

I DIDN'T WANT HIM IN MY LIFE 

the thing about things is that they can start meaning things 

nobody actually said 

and if he couldn't make something mean something for me 

i had to make up what it meant 

i can carry everything i need in one collapsing suitcase 

i can carry everyone i love in one phone application 

built to optimize the facetime with the ties i'm bent on making 

actually i want to be alone 

to mourn the loss 

of what this cost 

i collected you but now you are all lost 

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i think it's a poem and i think it keeps going 

i've borrowed and lost lots of things 

3 nights ago in the bar where i lost it a bartender gave me the ring 

and i lie in bed 

with my phone in my hand 

thinking 

what can i fix with this app 

and i call my grandfather 

and he doesn't answer 

and i have to make peace with that fact 

because the thing about things 

is that they can start meaning things nobody actually said 

and if you're not allowed to love people alive 

then you learn how to love people dead 

because the thing about things is that they can start meaning things nobody actually said 

and if you're not allowed 

to love people alive 

then you learn how to love people dead