I am vindicated. I am selfish. I am wrong. I am right. I’ll swear I’m right. I’ll swear I knew it all along. And I am flawed, but I am cleaning up so well. I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself.
Come on, you have to like this song. It displays so well so many of the qualities I most enjoy in people: self-awareness — especially of one’s failings –, hope for improvement and redemption and a capacity for deep love for others.
Hope dangles on a string like slow-spinning redemption.