[Verse 1: Kasane Teto, Eleanor Forte, Kasane Teto & Eleanor Forte]

Making paper dolls to ward away the wind

A vulture hoarsely shrilled, "I'll keep an eye on you, kid"

Does it really matter how the well runs dry?

I don't wanna hear another "Bad luck, good try"

[Chorus 1: Kasane Teto, Eleanor Forte, Kasane Teto & Eleanor Forte]

Guessed all the wrong paths

Pistol through my plans

Cradle my demands

Guess what I have left?

Unsteady heartbeat

Turned white as a sheet

Opposite ends meet

Heart staying bereft

[Verse 2: Eleanor Forte, Kasane Teto, Eleanor Forte & Kasane Teto]

If my own hands can't grasp the life I want

Just the path before me

If my whole self is somehow wrong

Whatever's left is sorry

Seems like I'm always falling forward

Move with no goal to move toward

I'm busy, but I'm still bored (Oh)

I can't fix my own foundation

While dying by stagnation

The "Hurry up and wait"-ing

Waltzing under ladders holding steps thirteen

The only god that smiles my way's a shinigami

Giving back a grin and holding in a sigh

Don't know if I can take another "Bad luck, good try"

[Chorus 2: Eleanor Forte, Kasane Teto, Eleanor Forte & Kasane Teto]

Take a deep breath

Through the fray again

One more pointless best

It's what I live for

Call my hope naive

But I have to be

All that's left in me

That pushes me forth

[Verse 2: Kasane Teto, Eleanor Forte]

So sick of losing that I'm scared to speak

I'm scared to breathe now

Should be a shut-in, but I'm still hoping

These bleak days might change somehow

Failing, the same expected ending

But there lies a new feeling

Is something in me changing? (Ah)

Am I better, am I worse now?

"You'll have to figure that out"

You say, but I don't know how

[Pre-Chorus: Kasane Teto, Eleanor Forte, Kasane Teto & Eleanor Forte]

No four-leaf clovers

Done starting over

Not one step closer

My efforts rebuffed

Limits I broke through

I've broken down too

Somehow, I just knew

It wasn't enough

Aah

[Chorus 3: Kasane Teto, Eleanor Forte, Kasane Teto & Eleanor Forte]

Name screamed through the night

Heard it one last time

Hoping to take flight

I felt it coming

Reaching for your hand

You answered those cries

With just a goodbye

Bad luck, but good try

[Outro: Kasane Teto & Eleanor Forte]

Sky comes crashing down

World starts caving in

It's all spinning 'round

Memories flood again

One more rolling kid

In a sea of them

Too mundane to mend

I've seen how this ends