What Have I Done?
Cursive * Track #10 On Mama, I’m Swollen
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What Have I Done? by Cursive
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This song is deeply personal to songwriter Tim Kasher, and at the time of its release was interpreted by fans and friends of the band as a farewell song.
“Upon hearing our 6th album, “Mama, I’m Swollen”, my good bud Gared from Planes Mistaken For Stars called to indict me over the last track on the...
What Have I Done? Lyrics
A year now and nothing much has changed
Holed up in a motel in El Paso
This was meant to be my great escape
But, I got lost along the way
Amongst free HBO and take-out
Going to write my Moby Dick
More like scratching lyrics on paper plates
I spent the best years of my life
Waiting on the best years of my life
So what's there to write about?
What have I done?
What have I done?
So is this my destiny?
From starlight into eternity
The gods must be laughing down at me
Ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha
A traveling salesmen at twenty years old
Stranded in Ann Arbor with a flat tire
And I watch the sun sadly set
Any younger, I may have wept
Much older, I wouldn't have noticed
But I was out there in the world
Yeah, then the world, it passed me by
I was telling everyone back home
That I was taking it by storm
Instead, I watched it from the roadside
What have I done?
What have I done?
So are these the best tales I can spin?
A boy waiting to begin
A man of no memoirs
What have I done?
What have I done?
You're young and you're going to be someone
Then you're old and you're ashamed of what you've become
Well, take a look around you
You're preaching to the choir
Ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha
Tell me darlin'
What have I done?
Oh, no, no, no, no
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
Tell me darlin'
What have I done?
Oh, no, no, baby now
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?
What have I done?