Jamie Green: Music

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I had always held this grudge against my high school nemesis, but I always imagined that I was just being lame—that it was my problem. But when I heard from the grapevine that she in fact still hated me, this held a mirror up to my own bullshit. I decided that enough was enough. This song is an olive branch offering, which acknowledges our humanness, and the uselessness of our resentments.

Verse 1
On the day I found out you still hate me
I decided I’d stop hating you
You see I thought that only I was the pathetic one
Now I see that you’re pathetic too

B-sect 2
I could say you haven’t changed
And that would vindicate this hate
But all it does is make me see
The ugliness I have inside me

Chorus
Can we just call a truce now?
This fight’s no longer useful
Can we just see we’re not who we used to be?
Can we just let it go then?
This grudge is old and gray and
The time has come for peace between you and me

Verse 2
I can only speculate how you remember me
You’d be surprised to find I might agree
But I wonder if the thought's ever occurred to you
To readjust your own bad attitude

B-sect 2
I have heard you're happy now
What if you heard I'm not as well?
Tell me would you sympathize?
Or would you not so secretly smile?

Repeat Chorus

Bridge
Didn't we both curl our lips and raise a brow in judgment of the other?
Didn't we both act supreme and suffer from self-doubt?
Didn't we both place ourselves at the center of the universe?
Didn't we both try so hard and still feel so left out?