I Know What I Know

I Know What I Know

For Karen O

“I think it's really kind of the ballsiest and most punk thing you can do…”

-Karen O (on writing love songs)

Let them keep the fame, the applause, the money

We have confetti on our faces and you've told us it’s our song

When we walk out we’re ordinary and we’re still ordinary right now

We don’t need to copy the different and the edgy

Yes, we may have been drawn to you for your desperate self-destructiveness

And wished we could live so uninhibited and never care about the consequences

But it was better when you gave us ourselves back, you said

“My sun is your sun”

Nothing is more outrageous than falling in love

And haven’t we all done that?