[Verse 1]

I’ve seen reason

Come and go

Like smoke beneath the light-posts

Crowds of humbled, ghosts

Have followed us home

With lush hope and slow throws

Just know, I’ll pick up

When the wind blows

[Pre-Chorus]

Maybe I’m easing my mind


Maybe I’m buying more time

Each road sign, wrought, screaming

“Get out while you can...”

Don’t twist my wrist


'cause you can’t...

[Chorus]

They’ll tempt and they’ll try;

Hell, they’ll vouch on their lives

(Those) Clever crooks in red ties

Pass them by

They don’t know shit about the view

Beyond the still-frames

A hand-shake ,and a last name

I’m not paying for my time

While I’m sleeping on the secondhand

[Verse 2]

We left the lights low

Wrapping pillar to post

I won’t settle at the core

Of the coast for too long

We’re sad songs, lost dogs;

Gauging doses cut too close

[Pre-Chorus]

I’ve stretched the lifeline

No sense of real time

Dimly tracing

Still-frames in my mind

I’ve stressed the lifeline

Roaming reel-time;

In the meantime…

(I won’t settle with the loss ends)

[Chorus]

They’ll tempt and they’ll try;

Hell, they’ll vouch on their lives

(Those) Clever crooks in red ties

Pass them by

They don’t know shit about the view

Beyond the still-frames

A hand-shake ,and a last name

I’m not paying for my time

While I’m sleeping on the secondhand

[Bridge]

Well I make decisions

For all the wrong reasons

I tailor my answers

To sit with they’re questions

Developed a taste

For committed resentment

I'm not turning heads

I'm not turning heads

I won't dare forget

[Chorus]

They’ll tempt and they’ll try;

Hell, they’ll vouch on their lives

(Those) Clever crooks in red ties

Pass them by

They don’t know shit about the view

Beyond the still-frames

A hand-shake ,and a last name

I’m not paying for my time

While I’m sleeping on the secondhand

I won't dare forget