Plain Letters

It always shows
Up at your door
When you least
Expect it to
Old wounds from your youth
Re introduce
Themselves to you
Do your best impression
Of yourself
A watered down version
Of the way it felt
To be unrecognized
Misunderstood
And spelled out
In plain letters
In plain letters
The camera's always
On the wrong side
Of the glass
Is there ever a
Flattering angle
Of the facts
Well do your best
Impression of yourself
A box within a box
In a storage cell
Those who tell you
What you are
Poke an insect in a jar
And put it on your name tag
In plain letters
In plain letters
How does it look
When it dries in pen
On your eyes
On your heart
On your emptiness
Well you can't be
Surprised
By what you've come
Expect
I hope you find
A weakness that you're
Stronger than
I hope you find
A weakness that
You're stronger than
You've got a case
Of winter
That no one's ever seen
Is that a new bandage
On your knees
Did anybody ask you
What was wrong
Or did they stare at you
Strange when you asked
Where you belonged
You know you
Can't defeat it
So you run out to greet it
But it looks like
A stop sign
In plain letters
In plain letters
How does it look
When it dries it in pen
On your eyes
On your heart
On your emptiness
Well you can't be surprised
By what you've come expect
I hope you find
A weakness that
You're stronger than
I hope you find
A weakness that
You're stronger than
I hope you find
A weakness that you're
Stronger than
Stronger than
It's an illiterate feeling
And a slow healing
Your world spins
Like a planet on your ceiling
And I wish it was enough
To convince you of yourself
But it can't be said in
In plain letters
In plain letters
In plain letters