Still I Make a Mess

Verse 1

I've been visiting

my lonely memories

Lofty as they may be

they still sit next to me

Crazy, boring now

I keep looking at them

So mundane, so plain

they're driving me insane

Pre-Chorus

And I laugh like it's a trick

But it sticks in my chest

Silence in the hallway

and my thoughts won't rest

Jumbling, shuffling

every little thing I know

I try to hold one thread

then I watch it go

Chorus

I'm just a ripple in the ocean

I'm just a ripple in the noise

I'm just a ripple in the ocean

(hey) I don't get to choose

I'm just a ripple in the ocean

Small as a passing breath

I'm just a ripple in the ocean

(yeah) still I make a mess

Verse 2

No surprise there, I know

I'm all alone again

But my mind keeps tossing

cards across the wind

Crazy sometimes, maybe

that's the joke I live

Funny, no joke

that's all I have to give

Pre-Chorus

And I laugh like it's a crack

In the glass of my night

Every thought comes back

and it asks me twice

Jumbling, shuffling

like a drawer full of old rain

I reach for a clean word

and I hold my own pain

Chorus

I'm just a ripple in the ocean

I'm just a ripple in the noise

I'm just a ripple in the ocean

(hey) I don't get to choose

I'm just a ripple in the ocean

Small as a passing breath

I'm just a ripple in the ocean

(yeah) Still I make a mess

Bridge

Maybe the silence

isn't here to hurt me

Maybe it's the room

where I learn to be

One small motion

one small turn

If I can't calm the sea

I can still burn

Final Chorus

I'm just a ripple in the ocean

I'm just a ripple in the noise

I'm just a ripple in the ocean

(hey) I don't get to choose

I'm just a ripple in the ocean

Small as a passing breath

I'm just a ripple in the ocean

(yeah) still I make a mess