Make It Clear

This song comes from a similar place as the second track “Fool” (and, in fact, even includes the word “fool”). It is a song of coming to terms with the worries and questions that come with a reckoning that something must change. However, it comes from a less angsty space and a more understanding one. Knowing that there is a lesson in the waiting as well. (For those of you that are familiar with the term ‘cognitive distortions,’ you may notice the terms fortune-telling, mind-reading, and all-or-nothing. That’s the nerdy therapist in me emerging.)

Are you willing? Are you able
To lay it all out on the table?
Tired of fortune-telling and mind-reading
This ache for answers has been feeding all my fears
Oh, baby, make it clear, ooo

At the mercy of nighttime
The wheel is spinning and the moon is shining bright
And sleep will carry me into another day
Where I fool myself into forgetting the words I’d like to say

Softening edges, tearing out pages
Tiptoeing lightly, shifting in stages
When will this cycle, never-ending
Vicious, counterfeit pretending, let me be?
Oh, darling, look at me, ooo

At the mercy of nighttime
The wheel is spinning and the moon is shining bright
And sleep will carry me into another day
Where I fool myself into forgetting the words I’d like to say

What is the lesson I’m learning?
Let it overthrow, let it overflow these bounds
It’s never been all-or-nothing
There’s a space between
There’s a light I’ve seen in you

It’s time to make it clear, ooo
It’s time to make it clear, ooo
It’s time to make it clear, ooo