Strange Loop

Now if you weren't such a sucker For finishing everything you started up And if I weren't beside myself There'd be just the two of us And I made the gruesome discovery That everybody else was right about me And now the whistle has been blown I've been diagnosed With a heart that's a known unknown So tell me, baby, what's so good About being understood? I would be terrified if I could read your mind And the real me You couldn't even identify So this is what you get This is what you get Now I can't wait There's so much I don't want to tell you And there's so much that you don't want me to see And darling there's so much you'd like to change If you were me But if you were me I'd give me a piece of your mind A self-portrait peering out through the polygraph lines Now there's no photogenic feelings, no rich inner life Just a strange loop And I'm once, twice, a thousand times removed So tell me, baby, what's so good About feeling understood? Now my time might be a joke but it Never gets old And my true self was beyond help Long ago So this is what you get This is what you get Now if you weren't such a sucker For being there when I need you I would be terrified If I could read your mind So tell me, baby, what's so good About feeling understood?