The Posies - You Avoid Parties lyrics

Isn't it nice how things resolve To test your will would take the sk** of crazy ants You fit your mind into smaller and smaller jars You find them clutching the last straw As if it's worth the worse for wear and tear you look But why try to understand someone that you don't even know Even though he brought you up, beat you up, Shut you up when you cried And now you avoid parties Because they remind you Of someone who you used to know Pretty soon you'll want to avoid yourself A popular phrase from the same year Would draw no tears save for the fears of looking back You find you hide for weaker and weaker reasons The battle you lost in the mirror Earned you no thanks but wooden planks were soon withdrawn And you couldn't run away even if you tried And you tried and you cried 'cause you knew that laying flat In your parents' car And now you avoid fathers Because they remind you Of someone who you used to know Pretty soon you'll want to avoid your own And now you're finally on your own You draw your choices from the voices you despise You find you're drawn to tighter and tighter circles Flashbacks, flashes forward You are insane though you have gained such wide appeal And all the car rides, cheap insides, laughter at the right people At the right time at the right line in the right frame of mind And now you avoid thinking Because it reminds you of someone who you used to know Pretty soon you'll only think about yourself