Secret Patterns - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

Sometimes I write in couplets

Sometimes I write in prose

Sometimes I write in secret patterns

That nobody knows

I wrote it all down in a letter

But it never got sent

I think I burned it in my bedroom

I didn't know where you went

I squandered up my youth

And I wasted my prime

I burn the candle now at both ends

Just trying to make up some time

I wish you could have seen me back then

When I had nowhere to go

You were looking way off into the distance

I was under your nose

I didn't ask for this but I'm not gonna turn it down

I gave up a long time ago with trying to figure it out

It doesn't have a thing to do with the person that I am now

Secondhand cigarette smoke

On a cold winter's day

I wore a secondhand winter coat

I felt the seconds slip away

You were the first thing that I

Thought about when I woke up today

I can't remember how long it's been

I still don't know what to say

I didn't ask for this but I'm not gonna turn it down

I gave up a long time ago with trying to figure it out

But it's got everything to do with the person that I am now

I gave up a long time ago