Wax & Wane

I could blame our partin'
 For the fact that I'm not startin'
 All my mornings at the time they ought to start
 And I could summon up a sisterhood
 Cry, "Lead me out of widowhood"
 But that is melodrama on my part
 I could blame my grievin'
 On the fact that I've been leavin'
 Us behind the ones we were when this began
 But I have rose-tinted us ruby
 And I've conjured up a new me
 Who bent freely to her newly moulded man
 But we bent and we broke and I meant what I spoke
 And the blame game does not produce a winner
 We went as far as we could go, we had to go that far to know
 That we had nowhere left to aim
 And no one left to blame but
 The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide
 The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide
 And I could blame my parents
 For my vices so inherent
 That I cannot shake them much as I may try
 But how much have I inherited?
 Or picked up since I was a kid?
 That nature versus nurture paradigm
 I could blame wrong turns that I take
 On decisions that my head makes
 Then trace each error right back to my heart
 And is it broken 'cause you toyed with it?
 Or was it formed with a little split
 That grows each year further and further apart?
 But we love and we lose and we lash out and we bruise
 And the name of the game's just the living
 We go as far as we can go, we've got to go that far to know
 That we have everything to gain
 By knowing we can blame
 The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide
 The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide
 And so I look to karma
 And if I try not to harm another
 I will not be harmed by anything
 If I salute the magpie, knock on wood
 Will I be doing any good?
 Am I strung up or do I pull the string?
 Will the fact I cling too tightly
 To my dreams come back and bite me?
 Am I trying to make a science of an art?
 And will the very fate I wish to woo
 Be the one that I undo
 By thinking I can steer this crazy cart?
 But I'll live and I'll learn
 And I'll light and I'll burn
 'Til the flame simmers down to a spark
 I'll go as far as I can go
 I've to go that far to know that I have everything to gain
 By knowing I can't train
 The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide
 The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide
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 I never said it was your fault
 I only wanted to blame someone
 I never said it was your fault
 I only wanted to blame someone (the moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide)
 (The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide)
 I never said it was your fault (the moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide)
 (The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide)
 I only wanted to blame