The greatest fall (of all time).

You know that handful of records that shaped your taste and played over and over on your stereo when you were 14 years old that you will never get tired of or recognize as subpar or even terrible because they meant so much to you at the time and that will always make them great in their own way? Stories & Alibis is one of those records for me. And songs like this are the reason why. I don't have relationships that I keep going back to like some people do, mostly due to the fact that I tend to mess them up until there is no going back. But I do have albums that I will always come back to, whether it's to make things easier somehow or just to know that someone else felt something similar and felt it was important enough to write a song about it.

The hand of my clock strikes two, in times when I got the best of you. We made promises we couldn't keep, and every night [I] couldn't sleep. I didn't know why, but didn't ask questions because it was the first time in my life where I did something right. I set myself up for the greatest fall of all time. You pick me apart while I search for witty things to say in my defense. "You'll never amount to anything anyway." And you think that I'm impressed with your one night stands and your contagious kiss? I'm trying to get this right. Yeah, 'cause I'm ridiculous like that. I set myself up for the greatest fall of all time. I'll keep this as a constant reminder of the nights I spent holding onto her. And rest assured I'm moving on. I [wish I could] miss you less with each day you're gone. I set myself up for the greatest fall of all time.

Do you miss me at all? I doubt it but I wish I knew.

I have the feeling that I won't be in such a good place for a while. But I'll be back, I promise. And I know you'll all still be there.