I have a feeling it wouldn't matter anyway

i'm just a boy whose intentions are good,
oh, lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

there is no poetry here today.
don't know if that marks progress or a lack of it.
but the things that I mean aren't usually taken the right way.
so I have to remind people that I am only a man,
and not a great one.

I against I against I against I

there are things in my life that I am trying to achieve.
there are people in my life that I am trying to relate to.
there are mistakes in my past that I am finally leaving behind.
and, in the midst of all of this, there is day to day life.

it always comes down to a lack of understanding.
and then life gets in the way before we can explain.

I never mean
I'm never mean
and
I don't love
I don't love
but
I can't move if
I can't move
and
I won't live
I won't live

so if this changes how each of you and I are with one another,
I'm sorry for that. it's not forever,
but it's how it's got to be.