Idlewild - (I Am) What I Am Not

Calling places, collecting careless
Sentences I write them down
So I ignore them, and you should too
You should ignore every word
Calling what you can surrender
Is the only way to really learn
That the alphabet made up the words
You could never resist to quote

If all this wisdom is true
Then I doubt it could really
Have come from you
Then I am what I am not
I am what I am not
So there must be something more than
If I am just a thought I'm not

Faster than the destination
Of knowing where you really are
Is where you've always been
Or is it where you began?
And happiness, did it happen
Sooner than the doubt it cost you
You learn from the mistakes that I taught you

If all this wisdom is true
Then I doubt it could really
Have come from you

Then I am what I am not
I am what I am not
So there must be something more than
I am what I am not
If there's nothing more than
I am what I am not
I am what I am not
There must be something more than
If I am what I am not

Then I am what I am not
I am what I am not
There must be something more than
I am what I am not
I know there's nothing more than
I am what I am not
I am what I am not
If there's nothing more than
If I am what I am not