Norm Crouse - Cheating Yourself Lyrics

Cheating. Cheating. You're cheating yourself

You act in an instant but you've practiced it for years
So excited when you start but it quickly ends in tears
So sure what you're looking for is there in someone new
But always, in the end, you find you're still just left with you

Cheating. Cheating. You're cheating yourself

You tell yourself that she's to blame. It was only one bad choice
You move on to the next one never giving doubt a voice
Even though it's ended like this way too many times before
Still you smile and tell yourself that the answer's find one more

You're cheating yourself if you think that it's some other
No one else can fill the blanks or lead you to discover
Questions you can't even frame and feelings you can't name
It doesn't really matter who, you'll still be left with you

Cheating. Cheating. You're cheating yourself

There's no loss and there's no win; simply just the rut you're in
You'll stay stuck until you see that you're the one to set you free

You're cheating yourself. You're cheating yourself

It isn't in a something, or a someone, or some place
It isn't a body, or a voice, or in a face
It's not inside anything that's strange or someone new
It's a thing you've always had waiting just inside of you

You're cheating yourself if you think that it's some other
No one else can fill the blanks or lead you to discover
Questions you can't even frame and feelings you can't name
It doesn't really matter who, you'll still be left with you

When will you learn that you're cheating yourself