Name: High Ceilings, Low Lives
Duration: P00H02M45S
Description: This song is the basis for the theme behind the record, This song (and the other two) are about doubting myself and my ability to be a better person, but the ability is always there.

High Ceilings, Low Lives

from On Self Doubt by Gifthorse

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This song is the basis for the theme behind the record, This song (and the other two) are about doubting myself and my ability to be a better person, but the ability is always there.

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We're talking again about the kind of friend
That has an expiration date, I start thinking, 'Man,
I suffer from many of the same character flaws.
They set me apart. I get lost in my own thoughts."

I try not to be so sensitive, I try not to overreact.
Or read into these things, they happen all the time.
But when you've got a mind like mine, a vessel of self-defeat,
You wither out of the conversation.
I get lost in my own thoughts.

When did self-pity become appealing, and when did you start refusing to be happy?

I've got nothing to offer but the miles to go and the promise of being a better everything.

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from On Self Doubt, released July 2, 2013

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