The tragedy of The Tragedy of One's Own Soul

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The first time I heard of this song was when a Rolling Stone article mentioned that it was going to be her upcoming album (The Other Side...). Listening to the outtake, it's not surprising why it didn't make it on the album.

There are some aspects of song that I like lyrically, but most of it is so cringe-worthy and plodding. It strives to be an epic song, but I think Stevie was in it over her head with this one. Most of the words have a strained clunkiness to them; it's Stevie's over-reaching attempt to create an insightfull big song with drama, pathos and emotion - but it just goes plunk! Kenny G. doesn't help much either!

Here are the lyrics as I deciphered them. Any suggestions as to what words go in the ___ ___ sections are welcome. What do you think of this song?

The Tragedy of One’s Own Soul

The house is full of life - people are everywhere
There’s a lot of people out there
In locked rooms we’ll never see again
Not again to just get together
Not again to prove that we can still be there
The presentation of the tragedy of one’s own soul

Well, it’s hard to look at the tragedy of one’s own soul
Because a very great part of you really knows how bad it was

To admit that I was ___ not to go
Funny about this love affair, ____ for the music
But it’s the only thing that pulls me back up by my boot straps
That electricity

Well, the house is full of life, people are everywhere
Well, there’s a lot of people locked up in rooms tonight that we will never see again
Not again, not to just get together, no not again just to prove that can still be there
___has a presentation of the tragedy of one’s own soul

We don’t have so very much in common
We don’t have really much to say
You tell me what is it that you wanting
You just look at me with those eyes
And we don’t talk to each other everyday
In fact sometimes weeks go by we don’t speak

And then something in the mail comes
She --- --- into shock
Well I’ll see you tomorrow night
She says ‘I can’t live like this, I can’t do it right’
I’ll see you tomorrow night
Everything’s just to good to be true

Something’s going wrong
I know, when you wake up the middle of the night
It’s just a bad dream baby
Well it was a nightmare, it’s started to be a fight
It’s just a bad dream baby