Invisible Ink

There comes a time when you swim or sink

So I jumped in the drink

'Cause I couldn't make myself clear

Maybe I wrote in invisible ink

Oh, I've tried to think

How I could have made it appear

But another illustration is wasted

'Cause the results are the same

I feel like a ghost who's trying to move your hands

Over some Ouija board in the hopes I can spell out my name

What some take for magic at first glance

Is just sleight-of-hand depending on what you believe

Something gets lost when you translate

It's hard to keep straight

Perspective is everything

And I know now which is which and what angle I oughta look at it from

I suppose I should be happy to be misread

Better be that than some of the other things I have become

But nobody wants to hear this tale

The plot is clichéd, the jokes are stale

And baby we've all heard it all before

Oh, I could get specific but

Nobody needs a catalog

With details of love I can't sell anymore

And aside from that, this chain of reaction,

Baby, is losing a link

Though I'd hope you'd know what I tried to tell you

And if you don't I could draw you a picture in invisible ink

But nobody wants to hear this tale

The plot is clichéd, the jokes are stale

And baby we've all heard it all before

Oh, I could get specific but

Nobody needs a catalog

With details of love I can't sell anymore