Tell Me Why

The story's always better than the truth

So tell me what you wanna see

And I'll give it back to you



I'm not the mystery you hoped to find

But I'm here now and I'm willing

To play the part anyway

But I'm here now and this face tells more

Than I could ever say



This isolation, my addiction

This fear of myself, my only grouse

You think you know just where I'm coming from



But you're lost now in the spotlight

As it shines upon my head

And you're lost now in the fantasy

Of everything I could have been



Shoot the lights out, and you'll see

Shoot the lights out, it's just me

Shoot the lights out

Shoot the lights out...



Misery divides me from the rest

And the people I don't care about 

Think they know the best

Don't try to stop me now, 'cause I'm gonna go



But if you tell me that you want me to be

- around, I think I'll stay

But if you bind me, I can promise

I will run with the light of day



Shoot the lights out, and I'll stay

Shoot the lights out, I might leave anyway

And then you'd never know, 

Then you'd never know -



- if it's me or my ghost

If it's me or what you want me to be

You won't know, you won't know

So let me go



And I'm telling you, I don't want me to be

The worst of what I am

And I'm telling you that I'm trying to be

A golden man



Shoot the lights out, and you'll see

Shoot the lights out, it's just me

Shoot the lights out, shoot the lights out