[Verse 1]
Can we take it back to way we used to be?
A couple of names and faces that keep on eluding me
This is all new to me, your questions harpooning me
Buffoonery, pardon, can you pause and excuse me

Before you start accusing me, this ain’t what I’d choose to be
Wrote it on a loose sheet, let’s turn over a new leaf
You can keep texting and calling, darling but you can’t get through to me
Sit on this couch and nod my head til I’m excused to leave

No imagination cuz I can’t picture my future, these
Clouds are getting dark, and it’s time to depart
Lost in my mind, walls to climb but I ain’t Peter Park
Before I retreat and depart, I don’t need to talk

Just let me get to stepping, my midsection beating hard
Then I can’t see it’s dark, trip over my feet and fall
Until I heed the call, I will always be dissolved
Like antacid tablets that I don’t need at all

[Hook]
I know, nothing’s what it seems and
Give me, something to believe in
I hope, that we can break even
Am I hooked, or am I just dreaming

I know, nothing’s what it seems and
Give me, something to believe in
I hope, that we can break even
Once I’m hooked, you’re all I’m ever needing

[Verse 2]
If self-preservation is the first law of nature
Then it’s a sad day, when I have to say see ya later
You told me patience, and I kept waiting and waiting
Still feeling unfulfilled, spent my entire life vacant

Twisting off the white top, like one day I might stop
Exceeding recommended doses, to drown my neurosis
I kind of chose this, potent comatose-ness
Everyone I ever spoke with, try to get me open

How quickly I lose focus, how quick it turns hopeless
Beyond-repair broken, and a part of you knows this
And that’s what makes me attractive clientele
Cuz I’m the perfect type of bastard to make your life a living hell

Don’t lie to me, hiding from me what’s inside this pill
Need more than a controlled variable, if I’m a be well
Uncontrollably ill, going through withdrawals, pissed off
Starting to think I was never really sick at all



[Verse 3]
With this next prescription please give me something real
I just need a girl with glasses to ask me how I feel
Cuz if I’ve ever got results from this, they’ve been miniscule
They just give me drugs and ask what I’ve been through

So jot in your notebook, while you pick at my brain
When we play your little mind games, is the only time I’m sane
Until she tells me her thesis, and picks up the pieces
Then I’m no longer anemic and rid of my grievance

I beg for the real thing, I swear I can handle it
And your little side effects, I don’t mind a bit
Been alone for so long, I can stand a little trip
Since my first hit, changed my life ever since

I got hooked on this pill, I swear I didn’t mean to
Now I am addicted to this shit, something lethal
She said “it’s okay because I will never leave you”
You said it with such conviction, that I actually believed you