Aim For True

Lyrics

A line is drawn and then another Each dissolves into the other Tension keeps a quiet fight Between the meaning and what's right

It's never clear the play's the thing When endings come before beginnings

Spells and incantations A call to some old muse Silent remonstrations Talent disabused

Aim for true Aim for true

The margin fills with its corrections Each draft rewrites its own intentions You reach to name the thing you meant And lose it in the argument

It's never clear the play's the thing When endings come before beginnings

Spells and incantations A call to some old muse Silent remonstrations Talent disabused

Aim for true Aim for true

Maybe the point was never to win it Only to start and stay inside it Strike the chord and let it catch There's nothing here it has to match The hand still shakes, the work's not done You let it go and start again Not to be perfect Just to be true

Spells and incantations A call to some old muse Silent remonstrations Talent disabused

Aim for true Aim for true

Aim for true Aim for true