Catching wind of the tide but the wind's moving into the night Sold near all that I own for the chance to sell more in this life The things that you thought were cold, well they're warm and they're coming alive And falling over myself that's the beginning of a little white lie (I am the one to always answer) I shut the door on everything that I am Now is there anybody home? Tuned down my ears to hear through the static repress I hear addiction on the phone Elected all the takers, phonies, 'cause I needed a friend Surreptitiously alone And saying that I know, but you don't, you just wanna get ahead Sell the story 'till you moan (I am the one to always answer) A cannonball, and what it'll do to me I've been here before, and I am the one to always answer Disguising the fall, ain't nothing new to me Well here come the chords, I am the one to always answer the door