Lyrics

same protocol as before- nothing new here to report
still tired and out of sorts- just sign and initial the form
you can check in at the desk, just need you to do your best,
if you’re tired then take a rest, let us know- we can pause the test

this is just data collection, not some value detection
only things that’ll tell them how to get you the help, well then-
just give em’ the truth, how it hurts to do,
all those things that you used to, and how you’re just so tired of losing

tired of losing…
so tired of losing…

and you’re afraid of the dark- the lights from the cars-
any break in the silence, from some distant siren
or that ringing in your ears, the salt stains and the tears,
a distorted sense of time and that fire burning through your spine
how the medicine wears off on the days it even works at all
and there’s not a goddamn thing some little bottle’s gonna bring
that don’t make all this worse, but at least you know this curse
so you hang on and you hope- you treat these strings and keys like dope

like dope… like dope
you treat these strings and keys like dope…

hey don’t call it delusion- a complex multi-level fusion
these bones have mended strong, but you’re still healing with these songs

you’re still healing-
with these songs

and if it’s hard to imagine, it can get any worse than it has been-
well that’s when you find yourself holding out the very most…
treating these strings and keys- treating these strings and keys,
like dope…

like dope. like dope.