[Verse 1]

It's 5:16 on Friday, so it's morning where they are

If they're not at work they're still in bed or sitting in their car

Scrolling timelines from the drive-thru with a poser on the stereo

Who whines out hollow platitudes and wants to be a star

And the next time they get caught using their phone behind the wheel

They'll just lie to all their friends again, the same as when they steal

And get gripped by the security and have the nerve to blame them

Like somebody made them do it, or the footage isn't real

Was it doctored? Was it fucked with? Does this go right to the top?

All that presidential misdirection's never gonna stop

But good God have I been fucked with, and it follows me around

And I know that I'll be running from their memory 'til I drop

But it's quarter-past five in the evening and I still work in reverse

With my brain still putting other time-zones first

Like I'm living in the past in at least two ways

Like I'm giving up fast on tomorrow every God damn day

[Chorus 1]

That's when I'm not

It's never ever ever gonna stop

When you forget I'm here

That's when I'm not

[Verse 2]

When you forgot me, I didn't exist

That's how it was, that's how it is

That's how you like it: ignorant bliss

How do you live with it?

That shit's a mystery to me

And every excuse just went through me

That's no way to treat me

And no way to live

If my feelings were real in your world

It'd offer prevention or something

Against what you did

And not just this shit that I'm

Stuck with and thoroughly fucked by

Walking on fragments of lie after lie

After lie after lie all the time

And I desperately tried

Despite constantly wanting to die

And for nothing, except for

Your nonsense and fear

There is nobody safer for you, my dear

But you'll figure that out now my duties are lifted

And God help us both should you reappear

[Chorus 2]

You were never happy

And you always tried to make it my fault

I'm down again, because you're down again

And every time I talk to you, you're down

Could it be 'cause I'm around?

I'm tired, and I've been gone for a while

What if it never wears off?

You make me feel like a child

And I just wanna grow up

[Outro]

You make me wanna throw up

I wanna grow into a grave

There's nothing more I wanna say