You Are What You Love Lyrics - Singles - Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins

This is no great illusion 

When I'm with you I'm looking for a ghost 

Or invisible reasons 

To fall out of love and run screaming from our home 

Because we live in a house of mirrors 

We see our fears and everything 

Our songs, faces, and second hand clothes 

But more and more we're suffering 

Not nobody, not a thousand beers 

Will keep us from feeling so all alone 

But you are what you love 

And not what loves you back 

That's why I'm here on your doorstep 

Pleading for you to take me back 

The phone is a fine invention 

It allows me to talk endlessly to you 

About nothing disguising my intentions 

Which I'm afraid, my friend, are wildly untrue 

It's a sleight of hand, a white soul band 

The heart attacks I'm convinced I have 

Every morning upon waking 

To you I'm a symbol or a monument 

Your rite of passage to fulfillment 

But I'm not yours for the taking 

But you are what you love 

And not what loves you back 

So I guess that's why you keep calling me back 

I'm fraudulent, a thief at best 

A coward who paints a bullshit canvas 

Things that will never happen to me 

But at arms length, it's Tim who said 

I'm good at it, I've mastered it 

Avoiding, avoiding everything 

But you are what you love, Tim 

And not what loves you back 

And I'm in love with illusions 

So saw me in half 

I'm in love with tricks 

So pull another rabbit out your hat