Nur Ein XX Round Five "Invisible Ink"

[letitsnow]

Invisible Ink by Le Tits Now

Our song is inspired by the lies and unreliable memories from the film Memento, particularly (spoilers for plot)

Spoiler

the heartbreaking reveal that Leonard's recurring stories about Sammy Jankis and his wife were actually part of Leonard's own life that he had conditioned himself to forget out of guilt

Following another lead
I got a car and a mission
I keep it all written down
You see, I have this condition
The last thing that I recall
was the act that ruined it all
Following another lead
or is this lead following me?

I've got revenge so many times
Memories that are not mine
I sense there was another life
I left behind

Back before the accident
I witnessed a tragedy
Sammy never had a system
I won't fall victim
to my incapacity

I've got revenge so many times
Memories that are not mine
I sense there was another life
I left behind

What's under my skin
My life is written
In invisible ink
Fact or fiction
It's vague enough
It's vague enough
To mean anything to anyone

You tell me things I can’t believe
To hide from the pain I caused
I changed my own reality
There is no Sammy, it was always me

What's under my skin
My life is written
In invisible ink
Fact or fiction
It's vague enough
It's vague enough
To mean anything to anyone

[glennny]

Invisible Ink
by Cavedwellers
truth-Initial lyrics and concept
Melvin- Vocals and improved lyrics
glennny- music and production

Special thanks to Melvin for saving the day!

Verse One
I’ll meet you at Blue Nile
For injera and tibs
We’ll talk about our parents
We’ll name our future kids

And we’ll rifle through the scores
At Tupper and Reed
We’ll laugh at teenagers
Drinking beer and smoking weed

But there’s something gargantuan
That you are not giving me

Chorus
Beneath a beautiful lie
It’s not what you think
You wrote out your life
In invisible Ink

Verse Two
We’ll start a summer Sunday
At Skates on the Bay
I’ll rig a rental lido
And we’ll sail away

You’ll tell me your whole life
A long list of deeds
We’ll plan out our vacations
To Rome and Madrid

But you’ll never once mention
The essential fact of your life

Chorus
Beneath a beautiful lie
It’s not what you think
You wrote out your life
In invisible Ink

Bridge
But you’ll excuse yourself
At McCormick and Schmidt’s
And you’ll be gone so long
That I was worried you’re sick

So I’ll go see what’s keeping you
And hear you on the phone
Telling someone, somewhere, you’ll soon be home
So kiss the kids, those beautiful kids, goodnight

And that’s when I see it
A subtle indentation
On the finger of the hand
The hand that I just held

Verse Three
As we walked from the car
And I walk back alone
With no idea
Not a single thought of who you really are

Chorus
Beneath a beautiful lie
It’s not what you think
You wrote out your life
In invisible Ink

[carlo bruno jr]

Invisible Ink - Carlo Bruno Jr.

Time to spill the beans
Time to come clean
Something blew the whistle
The truth came tumbling out
Today the jig is up

I poured the coffee hot
Your usual order, done
But that morning, you didn't show
And I knew something was wrong

The day before, all was calm
And I felt no alarm
But now I recall your face
Your smile felt out of place

I had breakfast and went out
The streets no longer seemed the same
But they could show me why
You were in such a hurry
To leave the house
Every morning.

Time to spill …

You were standing there with your eyes closed
Looking like you were short of breath
And then I saw how the outside air
Gave you life again

You left a note in the early days:
"I want to always stay home with you,
It makes me feel good and makes me feel safe"
This is the day I know
That me and the house
made you claustrophobic.
You used invisible ink.

Time to spill …

[Geech]

Invisible Ink
Berkeley Social Scene

Glen - Bass, Lead Guitar
Paul - Piano, Organ
Chumpy (Guesting) - Guitar
Ken - Guitar, Keys, Background Vocals, Production
Geech - Drums, Vocals

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I didn’t want to see the truth while it stood in front of me
Every night I pushed aside the impossibility
Where’s she going, I don’t know, but it’s nothing I can stand
At home beside the phone trying to come up with a plan

I want to believe
I want to believe that she’s true

When I found out my heart broke and I began to sink
It was all written in invisible ink

Last night I followed her home to see where she would go
I kept my distance far enough so she wouldn’t ever know
Over the bridge and up past the hill to the end of Oakdale Street
She entered the house, hung up her coat and kissed him on the cheek

I want to believe
I want to believe this isn’t true

When I found out my heart broke and I began to sink
It was all written in invisible ink

I barged in to confront them both
I yelled that I had declared an oath
Who’s this guy questioned her man
A guy from the diner, I guess one of my stans, she said

I didn’t want to see the truth while it stood in front of me
The person I had fallen for - was I really nobody?

I want to believe
I want to believe 
I want to believe this isn’t true

When I found out my heart broke and I began to sink
It was all written in invisible ink

When I found out my heart broke and I began to sink
Our love was all written in invisible ink

[eargoggle]

The Friends "Invisible Ink"

never meant to be a bad guy

never wanted you to feel thrown

always thought that you were all mine

even when you didn't come home

the stories made me crazy

my friends said you were still

running me in circles again

still I never thought that one big lie

would leave me lying here all alone



I read it all

in the middle of the night

it told me all



one phone call was all it would have took to tell me all

but now I'm caught staring at the words you're sharing

while invisible ink begins to fall



Well I knew you were a bit friendly

To a friend who shared a name with me

chalked it up to ol’ coincidence

didn't think to dust for fingerprints

you always write me for my eyes alone

I’d get excited when I’d see your name glow

so I uncovered one big lie

when I was lying here all alone



Everything that you say

I Wrote it down, kept track of every day

And all the Memories I thought were safe

It all Disappears, it goes away

[Sober]

When I was a child I kept mostly to myself
I’d keep company with notions that I would never tell
And when the storms would crash down in the world or at my home
I’d seek the coping comfort of being all alone

I’d protect myself by building walls and controlling what I could
Control’s a funny concept, it may be bad or good
Like deciding how much pain you’re in by pilin’ it on yourself
And if nobody can see the marks they’ll assume that all is well

So you fire up the stick and poke and get to work
And tell yourself it matters and one day they’ll feel the hurt

For years I bore the tattoos that no one else could see
I’d worked on them for ages, the artwork just for me
I held it all together through love and war and grief
And added to the tapestry when I needed to retreat

So you fire up the stick and poke and get to work
And tell yourself it matters and one day they’ll feel the hurt

Then sittin on a floral couch in a Houston office park
For hours I sat talking and pourin out my heart
We peeled the layers back, and piece by broken piece
The lies I’d wrapped myself up in were loosened and released

Some folks keep it going and take it to the grave
They carry generations worth of sorrow and of hate
One way or another the cycle ends with me
I’ll live my truth with friends I’ve made and love them honestly

[grumpymike]

i didn't know I had to squint
when you promised me the world
and brought the document

you guided me to every line
initial here and signature
using blood to sign

now i'm pouring over the legalese
with a fine toothed comb and a rosary
i can't believe i didn't see
the invisible ink

the invisible ink
the invisible ink

being famous sure is fun
but my hands are always cold
even in the sun

for interviews, i must prepare
but I can't see my own reflection
to just fix my damn hair

now i'm pouring over the legalese
with a fine toothed comb and a rosary
i can't believe i didn't see
the invisible ink

the invisible ink
the invisible ink

despite these facts i'm doing well
i didn't know a soul could sell
now I guess I'm going to hell

cause the invisible ink
yeah the invisible ink
the invisible ink
the invisible ink

[Adam!]

Invisible Ink
by Max Bombast

I was meeting an old friend who told me:
"Max do you pretend
To know the kind of shit
They teach our kids these days?
They say the earth is round,
But then how it don't fall down
If it ain't lying on a turtle's back in space?

When I was young they told me that the world was getting colder
But the story keeps on changing every year I'm getting older
Now they say a tree that falls may never make a sound
That North is South--oh great!--now all of my maps are upside down

The only thing that's stayed the same is
They can't keep their story straight
Everything we're taught's a lie!"

When the rules are written in
Invisible ink
(Invisible ink)
((Invisible ink))
And when the truth is hidden please
Remember to think
(Remember to think)
(Remember to think)
Or we are all screwed
And there's no way back

I told him:
"Just because it's wrong that doesn't mean it isn't right
If something isn't black that doesn't mean it must be white
You think that it's a flaw that all our old ideas are lies
But that just means our story's getting truer all the time

And I for one welcome revision
Rather than live in a fiction
I'll let time open my eyes"

When the rules are written in
Invisible ink
(Invisible ink)
((Invisible ink))
And when the truth is hidden please
Remember to think
(Remember to think)
(Remember to think)
Or we are all screwed
And there's no way back