[Verse 1]
Silly string
Finger ring
Made of gems
From the landfill
How are so many things
Made of the same thing?
They're all so different to me
Pencil thin
Borderline
All these choices
Wrong and right
The grayest couch to wait it out
While everybody else bakes cookies
I have to read a book
[Chorus]
And if it doesn't work
Why do we try anyway?
And if it doesn't stick
Why do we paste anyway?
We're just wasting glue
We're scraping the sides of thе canister
Now it's on my hands
Peel it off and start again
[Post-Chorus 1]
Silly string
Finger ring
Made of gеms
From the landfill
Silly string
Finger ring
Made of gems
From the landfill
Silly string
Finger ring
Made of gems
From the landfill
Silly string
Plastic ring
Plastic gems
Burn the landfill
[Verse 2]
Making things
Papier-mâché
They kind of suck
But the grownups don't say anything
Now that the hub's in flames
There's no extinguisher
That's big enough to drown out
Everyone that loves to frown
[Chorus]
And if it doesn't work
Why do we try anyway?
And if it doesn't stick
Why do we paste anyway?
We're just wasting glue
We're scraping the sides of the canister
Now it's on my hands
Peel it off and start again
[Post-Chorus 2]
Making things
Papier-mâché
Kinda suck
Don't say anything
Making things
Papier-mâché
Kinda suck
Don't say anything
Making things
Papier-mâché
Kinda suck
Don't say anything
Making things
Papier-mâché
Paper sucks
Just don't say anything
[Verse 3]
Pencil thin
Borderline
All these choices
Wrong and right
Your mistakes down
So I can frown
You lost my trust
You bite the dust
[Chorus]
And if it doesn't work
Why do we try anyway?
And if it doesn't stick
Why do we paste anyway?
We're just wasting glue
We're scraping the sides of the canister
Now it's on my hands
Peel it off and start again
[Post-Chorus 3]
Silly string
Finger ring
Plastic gems
Plastic landfill
Making things
Papier-mâché
Paper sucks
Don't say anything
Pencil thin
Borderline
All these choices
Wrong and right
Pencil thin
Borderline
All these choices
Don't say anything
[Outro]
Don't say anything
Don't say anything
Don't say anything
Don't say anything
Don't say anything
Don't say anything
Don't say anything
Don't say anything
Don't say anything
Don't say anything
Don't say anything
Don't, don't say it