A Story You’d Tell at a Party

I can see you there now, at the back of the room

And you've got on that grin that you wear

Right before you start telling the truth

And then everyone else stops to listen

And my heart plays the tenderest chord

But the whole of it makes me wonder what I'm for

I can see him there now when you call him your man

He likes to come when you go on your walks

And he doesn't mind holding your hand

And he's smiling in every picture

And whenever you walk through the door

And the whole of it makes me wonder what I'm for

I can see us back then, tryna take on the world

Just a boy with a storm in his eye

Making rain with his favorite girl

And he shouldn't have waited to tell her

'Cause she won't hear a word anymore

And the whole of it keeps me wondering what it's all for

You're stealing the spotlight again

Conducting your symphony of doubts

I know there's a chance in the end

That you were my only

And I'm just a story you'd tell at a party

If you saw me right now, would you know who I am?

Peering down from your parapet walls

At the shambling remains of a man

Who's abandoned his every ambition

But he's seen the impossible shore

And the whole of it makes me wonder what I'm for